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Christian Guertler <christian.guertler@bs-ag.com> wrote:
> Now I know, how expanding of a xfs-filesystem works. The fault was, that the
> filesystem was as large as the partition. In a second run I created a
> partition (4GB) and a much smaller xfs-filesystem. Now resizing worked. 
> But when the partition is full, how can I get space from the rest of the
> disk or other partitions? Only with running fdisk?

thats what an lvm is for :-) ... also parted might be an option
instead of fdisk - but the real solution is an lvm ...

t

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