"Live" resizing of a mounted partition

P.U.Kruppa ulrich at pukruppa.net
Thu Oct 26 15:03:47 UTC 2006


On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, bsd wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> I am planning to install a remote RAID system.
> This RAID will be attached to my server via a SCSI attachement and mounted on 
> my server.
>
> If I ever decide to add disks in the RAID how could I do that ?
> I've read about growfs - is that the right tool is there any pre-requisite in 
> order to use this tool ?
I guess the simpliest way would be just to mount the additional 
drive(s) on directories where most space is needed.

Does that help?

Uli.

>
>
> Is there any tools to do that while my partition is mounted (growfs does not 
> seem to allow that) ?
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
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Peter Ulrich Kruppa
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