On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:37:04AM -0800, Brian Chase wrote:
> 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."
> I can't imagine why that must be the case.

You could just read the xfs_growfs source and see :)

The actual resizing is performed in the kernel XFS driver and xfs_growfs
isn't doing a lot more than calling a bunch of fcntls (IRIX) or
ioctls(Linux) that perform the actual resize in a way that it is journaled
like other filesystem transactions.

	Christoph

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