IBM has released JFS for LINUX now under it's Open source program, it has a feature
that will allow it to
grow across
as many partitions/disk as you can install, I use it under OS/2!!!! (it is based on
the AIX FS)
URL for details/Download:
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/jfs/index.html
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 09:34:36 -0600, Wilde, Jeff wrote:
>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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