Installation guide

• Back up important data on the file system.
• Display the volume that is used by the file system to be expanded by running a gfs_tool df
MountPoint command.
• Expand the underlying cluster volume with LVM. For information on administering LVM
volumes, see the LVM Administrator's Guide
After running the gfs_grow command, run a df command to check that the new space is now
available in the file system.
Examples
In this example, the file system on the /gfs1 directory is expanded.
gfs_grow /gfs1
In this example, the state of the mounted file system is checked.
gfs_grow -Tv /gfs1
Complete Usage
gfs_grow [Options] {MountPoint | Device} [MountPoint | Device]
MountPoint
Specifies the directory where the GFS file system is mounted.
Device
Specifies the device node of the file system.
Table 4.3, “GFS-specific Options Available While Expanding A File System” describes the GFS-
specific options that can be used while expanding a GFS file system.
Option Description
-h Help. Displays a short usage message.
-q Quiet. Turns down the verbosity level.
-T Test. Do all calculations, but do not write any data to the disk and
do not expand the file system.
-V Displays command version information.
-v Turns up the verbosity of messages.
Table 4.3. GFS-specific Options Available While Expanding A File System
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