Re: Expanding a zLinux non-LVM disk

I take that back something went wrong and the partition wasn’t resized after all. No worries. Cheers On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 13:32 Donald Russell wrote: > Thanks Stefan, > That all worked like a charm except I can’t seem to get the file system > expanded. > > I got

Re: Expanding a zLinux non-LVM disk

Thanks Stefan, That all worked like a charm except I can’t seem to get the file system expanded. I got everything copied, deleted and created a new larger partition with the same starting track. The file system is ccs so I booted up the new disk and thought xfs_growfs would do the trick. I’m

Re: Expanding a zLinux non-LVM disk

On 25.04.2018 05:48, Donald Russell wrote: I have a RHEL 7 zLinux on a single Mod-9 ECKD DASD. there are three partitions: 1 - /boot 2 - swap 3 - / From one Linux system I tried attaching a not-in-use zLinux Mod-9 and a Mod-27 and using fdasd and dd to copy the partitions. That didn’t work,

Re: Expanding a zLinux non-LVM disk

I think you need to use fdisk to extend the partition: https://access.redhat.com/articles/1190213 and then resize2fs or the appropriate filesystem resize command as stated in the article... Scott Rohling On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 8:48 PM, Donald Russell wrote: > I

Expanding a zLinux non-LVM disk

I have a RHEL 7 zLinux on a single Mod-9 ECKD DASD. there are three partitions: 1 - /boot 2 - swap 3 - / >From one Linux system I tried attaching a not-in-use zLinux Mod-9 and a Mod-27 and using fdasd and dd to copy the partitions. That didn’t work, then I tried a VM DDR of the Mod-9 to