Assuming there's free space following your existing partition, you can use fdasd to increase the partition size (just make sure you keep the same starting cylinder), and then resize your filesystem with resize2fs after the partition has been extended.
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Florian Bilek <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear all, > > Is there a tool that would allow to increase the partition size of a DASD > partition? > > I would need to extend an ext2 filesystem on a DASD without loosing the > data on it. resize2fs does not extend the partition size. Is there an > appropriate tool for that on s390x? > > Thank you very much in advance. > > -- > Best regards > > Florian Bilek > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
