Aha, a bit of 'G' confusion. I tried GNU parted, not Gnome parted.
I'll install the Gnome graphical version and give that a shot. I spend
so much time on the command line that I forget to try the graphical tils.
Rene
On 3/16/2011 8:54 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
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
>>> 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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