[mythtv-users] [ot] Resizing XFS partitions

[jarpublic at gmail.com]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Ben Lancaster <mail at benlancaster.co.uk>wrote:

> Hey,
>
> So I have an XFS partition on a RAID0 array on my slave mythbackend.
> Until recently, the RAID device had another partition on it, which
> I've since removed. The now-removed partition was at the beginning of
> the device, and the XFS partition was at the end of the device. I'd
> like to grow the XFS partition to fill the whole device, but I'm
> struggling to work out how? Parted doesn't support resizing XFS
> volumes, so I tried "xfs_growfs /dev/mapper/nvidia_bhcebfacp2" (the
> xfs partitioned device), it dumps some stuff out but doesn't seem to
> do anything:
>

gparted will do it. It doesn't support shrinking xfs partitions. I don't
think anything does. But it will grow an xfs partition. It says you need to
have xfsprogs installed. Then it should be easy with gparted.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php
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