[aklug] Re: XFS (was: Re: Question regarding paritioning and drive space)

From: Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@eeinternet.com>
Date: Wed Apr 08 2009 - 14:03:40 AKDT

On Monday 06 April 2009, Mike Tibor said something like:
> >> I was looking at XFS on wikipedia, and it sounds kind of
> >> cool. But why do you prefer it?
> > Mostly because of the journaling feature and I can grow each
> > partition while it is still mounted.
> I know of no other fs on Linux that will allow you to grow a
> partition while it's still mounted, so that alone is enough for me to
> love XFS.

ext3 (and probably ext2) also allows you to do this. I've done it. More
than once. :)

resize2fs /dev/here

It will automatically expand up to the partition size. Great for
resizing volumes on LVM.

j

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