Re: (no subject)

Theodore Ts'o
Tue, 28 Jan 2003 03:22:26 -0000

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:28:24AM +0000, mark.venn@tiscali.co.uk
wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have a question for you. Does red hat 8.0 have an equivalent for growfs?
> I have installed a new disk in my machine and I would like to extend some
> of my file systems onto this new disk. I know this is OK on unix, I was
> wondering if it was OK on RH linus.

The resize2fs program will allow you to enlarge a filesystem, as long
as you've made provision to increase the size of the partition using
fdisk, or by changing the configuration of your md device.  Its one
limitation is that it must be done with the filesystem unmounted.

						- Ted