get filesystem size back in sync with volume

Philip A. Kufeldt pak@harbor.net
Tue, 24 Mar 1998 06:11:42 -0800



Gregory M. Paris wrote:

> I did a clueless thing when I carelessly grew one of my Veritas VM volumes
> when I meant to grow the filesystem.  Now I'm not sure of what I have to
> do to get the filesystem to be the size I want.  It seems to me it's only
> a matter of running mkfs, but I sure don't want to blow away the 9 GB of
> data that's currently on the filesystem.  Will a kind soul please hold
> my hand and tell me what I need to do?  Thanks!

For UFS:

     mkfs -Fufs  -M <mntpoint> <rawdev> <newsize>

For VxFS

     /usr/lib/fs/vxfs/fsadm -b <newsize> -r <rawdev> <mntpoint>

In both cases newsize is blocks not bytes.

pakman