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- From: david@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (David Robinson)
- Subject: Re: Disk Partitioning
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.150555.12801@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Image Analysis Systems Group, JPL
- References: <1992Jul21.214918.157285@zeus.calpoly.edu> <1992Jul23.010237.2450@afterlife.ncsc.mil> <13693@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:05:55 GMT
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- In article <13693@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
- >Sun's DiskSuite unbundled product - or whatever their metadisk product
- >is called - might allow growing partitions on the fly; I don't know if
- >they've modified the BSD file system to allow growing file systems on
- >the fly or not.
-
- Disksuite does allow growing of filesystems. It "locks" the filesystem
- then modifies the superblocks on the fly. When it is "locked" anything
- that attempts to write to the filesystem appears to block. You
- can only grow a filesystem within a single partition or "meta"disk.
-
- |GROWFS(8) MAINTENANCE COMMANDS GROWFS(8)
- |NAME
- | growfs - non-destructively expand a mounted file system
- |DESCRIPTION
- | growfs non-destructively expands a mounted or unmounted file
- | system up to the size of the file system's partition.
- | growfs is a "friendly" front-end to the newfs(8) program.
- [...]
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- -David
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