[CentOS] Expand XFS filesystem on CentOS Linux release 8.2.2004 (Core)

Rainer Duffner
Fri, 12 Mar 2021 14:29:16 -0000

> Am 12.03.2021 um 15:23 schrieb Thomas Mueller <thomas at
chaschperli.ch>:
>
> On 3/12/21 1:45 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
>> Is there a way to expand xfs filesystem /dev/nvme0n1p2 which is 7.8G
and
>> occupy the remaining free disk space of 60GB?
>
> parted porbably could do it. there is also a gparted gui
(https://gparted.org/ <https://gparted.org/>), but doesn't seem to be
in CentOS 8.
>
> Maybe boot from a livecd that includes the gui tool, like
https://gparted.org/livecd.php <https://gparted.org/livecd.php> or
https://www.system-rescue.org/ <https://www.system-rescue.org/>


If the downtime is acceptable, that?s almost always the smartest thing to do,
IMO.