It is not exactly the tool you are searching for, but there is an lvm (logical volume
manager) laying around for linux.
I don't remember the URL, but will look at home for it and post it later.
Dietmar
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> Greetings,
>
> Is there some definitive documentation, somewhere, which covers expanding
> a Linear Concatenation? What specific utilities are required?
>
> Within Software Raid mini HOWTO at:
>
> http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Software-RAID
>
> Miguel De Icaza writes:
>
> > I changed the ext2fs code to be aware of multiple-devices
> > instead of the regular one device per file system assumption.
> >
> > So, when you want to extend a file system, you run a utility
> > program that makes the appropriate changes on the new device
> > (your extra partition) and then you just tell the system to
> > extend the fs using the specified device.
>
> What is this utility program?
>
> Is this part of the Raidtools package?
>
> >
> > You can extend a file system with new devices at system
> > operation time, no need to bring the system down (and
> > whenever I get some extra time, you will be able to remove
> > devices from the ext2 volume set, again without even having
> > to go to single-user mode or any hack like that).
> >
> > You can get the patch for 2.1.x kernel from my web page:
>
> Is this now incorporated in the 2.2.5 kernel sources?
>
> >
> > http://www.nuclecu.unam.mx/~miguel/ext2-volume
>
> This link is broken, does anybody have a more recent link?
>
> Thanks :)
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Chuck Tellechea
> Senior Technical Account Manager
> Frontier GlobalCenter
>
>
>
