Hmmm. I *do* recall other fdisk-esque programs that were better able to handle large partitions. Specifically, I remember using cfdisk when fdisk was confoozled -- note, however, that this was a whole lot nearer to 2000 than 2011, and Things May Have Changed.
Wups! Just a moment, thar: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php says that it does support XFS (except for shrinking); perhaps you're running an older version? -Ken On Wed, March 16, 2011 8:44 am, Dave Tisdell wrote: > 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 > > > > > > This e-mail may contain information protected under the Family > Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). If this e-mail contains > student information and you are not entitled to access such information > under FERPA, please notify the sender. Federal regulations require that > you destroy this e-mail without reviewing it and you may not forward it 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 > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > René Churchill > VP of Development (i.e. Geek #2) > WherezIt.com - Your source for Local information > > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 802-244-7880 x527 > http://www.wherezit.com/ > > > > >
