[SunHELP] Growfs

The Renaissance Man alaric at caerllewys.net
Mon Jul 12 14:05:59 CDT 2004


On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 12:28:56PM +0100, Lara Matthews wrote:
> Hi Guys
> 
> Can you tell me if growfs works in Solaris 8 without disksuite?
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Lara

Growfs and DiskSuite are not dependent on each other.  Disksuite manages
disks and logical volumes; growfs applies to UFS filesystems.  If you
have room on the volume or slice containing it, you can use growfs to
enlarge a UFS filesystem regardless of whether you are using DiskSuite
or not.


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