[SOLVED] Growing an XFS partition with parted – Ubuntu Forums

I spent three days trying to figure this out…

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XFS has the xfs_growfs that you can grow the file system, but you have to resize the underlying partition first, else the output of xfs_growfs simply prints the size information about the partition as it exists.

No hints whatsoever as to why the filesystem hasn't grown.

parted has the ability to grow a partition – google that and you will quickly find parted doesn't support XFS. You can't resize an XFS partition.

What you can do is simply delete the existing partition and create a new one. This is the bit of information that is a bit hard to come by.

example:

parted /dev/md0

print

Model: Unknown (unknown)

Disk /dev/md0: 6001GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 17.4kB 3001GB 3001GB xfs primary

rm 1

mkpart 1 0 6001GB

print

Model: Unknown (unknown)

Disk /dev/md0: 6001GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 17.4kB 6001GB 6001GB xfs primary

mount the partition – xfs_growfs works on mounted partitions.

mount /dev/md0p1 /media/md0p1

xfs_growfs /media/md0p1

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