Summary 2: Extend file system

From: Howard Arnold (arnoldh_at_celerent.com)
Date: 01/23/05

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    Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 23:40:51 -0500
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    I want to thank Bill Kirk who told me that if I increased the size of the c
    partition the way I was doing I also needed to change the sectors/unit:
    40135120 of the disk to match. I did another test and this worked. This step
    is missing in the manual.

    I then did a test by putting in a larger value, larger than the actual disk
    size, but had the sectors/unit match the c partition and the disk label
    took. I than did a mount -u -o extend and it failed by stating that it would
    extend past the end of the disk. I was glad of this because I wanted to see
    if there a check to make sure that you couldn't just type any size in.

    Original question:

    I have a quick question on extending a file system. I have an HSV110 and I
    have extend my virtual disk by 100gig. I want to extend the file system
    without umounted it. This is what I did

    1) Extended virtual disk by 100gig
    2) disklabel -rw dsk100
    3) mount -u -o test_domain#test /test

    The file system showed the increase in size and I was able to read and write
    the file system.

    The reason I'm asking the question is the system admin guide has you reading
    the disklabel to a file and then modifying the label and reading it back
    onto the disk (section 6.3). This didn't work for me because is said that
    the open partition extend pass the end of the disk.

    Howard Arnold
    Technical Consultant
    Phone:(603) 685-6060 ext:206
    Fax: (603) 685-6060
    Email: arnoldh@celerent.com
    www.celerent.com


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