On Sunday, 27 June 1999 at 0:35:54 +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Bernd Walter: >> I wrote one. >> It is place on ftp://ftp.cosmo-project.de/pub/growfs >> My tool will grow a UFS filesystem to the current size of the partition. > > Another datapoint ot consider, it seems that Linux (at least the > derivative version maintained by Alan Cox -- the other one :) ) has > now grown an LVM system (probably à la HP or AIX). That's what I've > been told yesterday during a small conference about Linux and free > software in France (and where I did a talk about FreeBSD *grin*).
Interesting. If you find any pointers, I'd like to take a look. Looks like this is a case where Linux is following FreeBSD :-) > I think one of the difficulty of growing a FS is that you have to > choose whether you need the FS to be contiguous or not. The latter > case makes it much more difficult... Why shouldn't it be contiguous? That's what the volume manager's there for. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message