The other "growable" file system is NetWare. I don't know if there are
any linux tools to manage NetWare partitions
> I don't know if there is a dynamic file system yet for linux or not. I see
> the one thing that linux (and for that matter solaris and the rest of the
> unix'es don't have except IBM's AIX) is a way to dynamically grow a file
> system. AIX has logical volume manager which all of the other operating
> sytems in this world need to catch on to. It is crucial to companies and
> business. Is there a third party product out there that can do this? I
> have to continue to use AIX until this is actually figured out. Can someone
> enlighten me?
>
> Jeff Wilde
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clare Teoh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 9:32 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Increase partition size
>
>
> This is what I currently have :-
>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> ---------- ---- ---- ----- -------- ----------
> /dev/hda9 1.7GB 21MB 1.6GB 1% /var
> /dev/hda10 972MB 942MB 30MB 97% /var/spool/imap
>
>
> The above 2 partitions are the last 2 partitions on my filesystem.
>
> Since /var/spool/imap (hda10) is almost full and I have so much space
> left on /var (hda9), I was thinking of backing up /var/spool/imap , then
> delete the partition (hda10) and then increase the size of /dev/hda9 and
> finally restoring /var/spool/imap to hda9.
>
> My question is :-
>
> Can I increase the size of /dev/hda9? If yes, how do I do it? Will it
> destroy whatever data that's on hda9?
>
> The server is running RH5.1
>
> Thanks,
> Clare
>
>
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