On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 09:33:45AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Sunday, 27 June 1999 at 0:35:54 +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> > According to Bernd Walter:
> >> I wrote one.
> >> It is place on ftp://ftp.cosmo-project.de/pub/growfs
> >> My tool will grow a UFS filesystem to the current size of the partition.
> >
> > Another datapoint ot consider, it seems that Linux (at least the
> > derivative version maintained by Alan Cox -- the other one :) ) has
> > now grown an LVM system (probably � la HP or AIX). That's what I've
> > been told yesterday during a small conference about Linux and free
> > software in France (and where I did a talk about FreeBSD *grin*).
>
> Interesting. If you find any pointers, I'd like to take a look.
http://linux.msede.com/lvm/
--
Regards,
Norman C. Rice, Jr.
> Looks like this is a case where Linux is following FreeBSD :-)
>
> > I think one of the difficulty of growing a FS is that you have to
> > choose whether you need the FS to be contiguous or not. The latter
> > case makes it much more difficult...
>
> Why shouldn't it be contiguous? That's what the volume manager's
> there for.
>
> Greg
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