Resizing an XFS filesystem on a multipath device

March 2012


I 've got a 3 TB filesystem on a SAN volume, and it's growing too large. The server guys added another 3TB to the colume, and now I've got to enlarge the filesystem.

  1. Rebooting

    I had to reboot anyway, and now the system sees the extra space:

  2. Enlarging the LVM Physical Volume

  3. Enlarging the Logical Volume

    XFS filesystems can be enlarged but cannot shrink, so I don't want all that space in my FS yet, and I increase the LV by just 1TB.

  4. Growing the fileysystem

  5. Checking the result