Resizing XFS on GPT partition

Resizing XFS on GPT partition

[Michael Monnerie]

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I've had a XEN VM with a 90GB disk, increased it to 250GB.
Then I had the problem that I used GPT partitioning, meaning only 
"parted" being usable. parted doesn't support resizing partitions for 
xfs and refuses to do it.

The simple thing is to delete and recreate with bigger size that 
partition. Later mount the partition and run xfs_growfs.

I don't understand why parted doesn't support that, just resizing the 
partition and not refusing it. :-(

mfg zmi
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Re: Resizing XFS on GPT partition

[Eric Sandeen]

Michael Monnerie wrote:
> I've had a XEN VM with a 90GB disk, increased it to 250GB.
> Then I had the problem that I used GPT partitioning, meaning only 
> "parted" being usable. parted doesn't support resizing partitions for 
> xfs and refuses to do it.
> 
> The simple thing is to delete and recreate with bigger size that 
> partition. Later mount the partition and run xfs_growfs.
> 
> I don't understand why parted doesn't support that, just resizing the 
> partition and not refusing it. :-(

File a bug against parted.  :)

I agree, parted should just resize the partition as you asked and shut
up about anything else.  I'm surprised that it can't - even if the fs is
unmounted?

I have no idea what happened to "do one thing and do it well."  :)

-Eric

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Re: Resizing XFS on GPT partition

[Michael Monnerie]

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On Freitag 14 August 2009 Eric Sandeen wrote:
> File a bug against parted.  :)

You think that's easy? I went there:
http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/newticket#preview
And always got this:
500 Internal Server Error (Submission rejected as potential spam)

After creating an account the text was accepted:
http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/222

> I agree, parted should just resize the partition as you asked and
> shut up about anything else.  I'm surprised that it can't - even if
> the fs is unmounted?

Yes, unmounted, of course. They are strange. They know xfs does this 
only when online. I wonder what they will write about my report.

> I have no idea what happened to "do one thing and do it well."  :)

Yes, KISS (keep it small and simple).

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