I don't have a solution for you and wish I did but this sounds like an
opportunity to make a feature request for both the gparted and fdisk
developers. I have made feature requests in the past to open source
software I use regularly and lo and behold, sometimes it is in the next
release.
One of the developers of either product may even have something in the
works. Definitely worth an email to them if you don't find another
solution.

Dave




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to anyone.>>> Rene Churchill <[email protected]> 3/15/2011 10:50 PM >>>

Hey gang,

Hopefully one of you have played with this.  I'm trying to expand an
XFS 
partition on a raid.  I've added the new drives and iscsi correctly 
recognizes them.  The problem is that XFS was chosen as the file system

which puts me in a catch-22.  GNU parted doesn't support XFS and fdisk

doesn't support the GUID partition table that parted writes out.

I can't use xfs_growfs to expand the drive until the partition table
has 
been expanded first.  Anybody know of a partition editor for Linux that

understands GPT partition tables and XFS?

I can't back up the drive, wipe it and rebuild because I don't have a 
spare 3TB of disk space kicking around.

Thanks,
     Rene

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