[Sunhelp] Anybody compiled NAS with Solaris7?

James Lockwood lockwood at ISI.EDU
Tue Nov 9 12:56:04 CST 1999


On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, David Murphy wrote:

> As for resising partitions, DiskSuite includes growfs, which can
> expand UFS filesystems (once you've changed the partition sizes), but
> can't shrink them. Reinstall.

Note that growfs is actually a small script that calls mkfs with an
undocumented option (-G).  You can grow filesystems this way without
DiskSuite, but the usefulness is somewhat limited without metadevices.

-James







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