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
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
Hi, Florian.
There is no tool that I am aware of that would do this, but there are
some manual steps you can do to expand the partition size:
1) add a new minidisk of the appropriate size to the zLinux image
2) dasdfmt it
3) make a partition: fdasd -a
4) put an ext2 (or ext3) file system on it
Rick Troth, in a private note to me, has made the excellent suggestion
of using rsync instead of cp below, to avoid problems with symlinks:
rsync -a -u -x -H -K -O -S /old/. /mnt/.
Thanks Rick.
DJ
Hi, Florian.
There is no tool that I am aware of that would do this, but there are
some
Dear Christian,
Unfortunately this does not workout since FDASD does not allow to enter
extends beyond the actual partition size. It tells:
fdasd /dev/dasdl
reading volume label ..: VOL1
reading vtoc ..: ok
WARNING: This device is not fully formatted! Only 2238 of 3339 cylinders
are
FWIW, using fdasd to extend a partition in-place does work when you have
free space after the end of your partition and had pre-formatted the
entire DASD (or minidisk) prior to creating your original partition table.
Also, if you have another DASD available, and are concerned about how
exactly
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Florian Bilek florian.bi...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a tool that would allow to increase the partition size of a DASD
partition?
Assuming CDL, the following sequence should work. (Is untested, but
similar to steps I have run previously.)
from the CMS side
Florian, use the rsync command as Rick Troth has suggested,the cp
-ax does not handle symlinks as we want it to. As an aside, I'm not all
that thrilled by trying to expand a filesystem or partition in place,
either.
DJ
On 3/28/2012 11:45 AM, Florian Bilek wrote:
Dear Christian,
Unfortunately
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:50:01 -0400 (EDT), Florian Bilek wrote:
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
