Re: Live resizing of a mounted partition

2006-10-26 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 26 October 2006 14:20, bsd wrote: Is there any tools to do that while my partition is mounted (growfs does not seem to allow that) ? No, this cannot be done, since the kernel doesn't support resizing a mounted filesystem. It's not matter of tool. Nikos

Re: Live resizing of a mounted partition

2006-10-26 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, bsd wrote: Hello, I am planning to install a remote RAID system. This RAID will be attached to my server via a SCSI attachement and mounted on my server. If I ever decide to add disks in the RAID how could I do that ? I've read about growfs - is that the right tool is

Re: Live resizing of a mounted partition

2006-10-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Is there any tools to do that while my partition is mounted (growfs does not seem to allow that) ? AFAIK - no. umount, growfs, mount so you have to make small root partition, and partitions for others, so you will be able to do this without shutdown, and (with good care) remotely.