Dear Christian,
Unfortunately this does not workout since FDASD does not allow to enter extends beyond the actual partition size. It tells: fdasd /dev/dasdl reading volume label ..: VOL1 reading vtoc ..........: ok WARNING: This device is not fully formatted! Only 2238 of 3339 cylinders are available. I had formatted the device before and the old content was copied by dd. I think that there should be some option at dasdfmt to format only parts of the partitions as cpfmtxa can do or FDASD should not check the size of the partition at leased with an option. Maybe this could be taken by IBM on board for improvement of the s390x tools. @Dave Thank you Dave for these hints. I will try it out. I was always concerned to use cp or rsync since I was not shure how it would handle the symlinks. Kind regards, Florian On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Christian Paro <christian.p...@gmail.com>wrote: > Assuming there's free space following your existing partition, you can use > fdasd to increase the partition size (just make sure you keep the same > starting cylinder), and then resize your filesystem with resize2fs after > the partition has been extended. > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Florian Bilek <florian.bi...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > Is there a tool that would allow to increase the partition size of a DASD > > partition? > > > > I would need to extend an ext2 filesystem on a DASD without loosing the > > data on it. resize2fs does not extend the partition size. Is there an > > appropriate tool for that on s390x? > > > > Thank you very much in advance. > > > > -- > > Best regards > > > > Florian Bilek > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > > visit > > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/