[Ocfs-users] Resizing partitions using OCFS?

H. Wade Minter minter at hcssystems.com
Mon Aug 25 15:41:09 CDT 2003


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On Monday 25 August 2003 01:31 pm, Wim Coekaerts wrote:
> there is a resizeocfs but it's not shipped yet as part of the rpms
> on linux you can't really change your volumes while a filesystem is
> mounted on it anyways. and lvm is not really clustersafe.
>
> we should probablty update the repository and get the latest ocfs code
> in there so you can use resizeocfs, it's pretty harmless

So in that case, would the resizeocfs utility resize both the underlying 
partition and the filesystem on an unmounted partition?  Meaning that you'd 
run something like "resizeocfs /dev/foo +20G" to extend /dev/foo 
(/opt/oracle/foo) an additional 20GB?

Thanks,
Wade
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H. Wade Minter
Senior Unix Systems Engineer
IBM Business Consulting Services, NC Wise Project
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