* On 2003-02-25 at 19:41 GMT, Brian Chase wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 05:26:24PM +0100, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> >
> > > I suspect that the FS has to be unmounted to be resized?
> >
> > Yah, I think that applies with the FreeBSD growfs, too.
> 
> But it doesn't apply to JFS under AIX or XFS under IRIX.  I must
> admit, I found being able to grow both of those, live, rather handy on
> a couple of servers I've managed.  In the case of XFS under IRIX, the
> xfs_growfs man page states that "the filesytem must be mounted to be
> grown."

Solaris growfs also allows growing while the filesystem is mounted,
which we took advantage of over the weekend to upgrade our master
content server.  However, it does write-lock the filesystem...

Thankfully, you're not forced to do it this way though, and can of
course grow an unmounted filesystem :-)

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