Summary: growing a SAN Volume

From: Ulrich Bernhard <ulrich.bernhard_at_id.unizh.ch>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:30:39 +0200

Thanks for all the answers.

I have done the following:

- showfdmn domain-name (gives me the dskX)
- Extend the volume on the SAN storage (EVA)
- hwmgr scan scsi
- disklabel -rd dskX
- mount -u -o extend domain-name#files /mountpoint

and the filesystem has the new size.

Ulrich Bernhard

Ulrich Bernhard wrote:
> We would like to grow a volume mounted from a SAN storage EVA5000. I
> have searched the internet but have found only one solution:
>
> Unattach the volume, resize it on the SAN storage, attach the larger
> volume, format the volume.
>
> Is this really the only way, are there no other ways to grow a
> filesystem without reformatting the filesystem?
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Ulrich Bernhard

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