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Is there a way to make a XFS filesystem larger or smaller?

April 26, 2017filesystem larger smaller XFS

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Is there a way to make a XFS filesystem larger or smaller?

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You can NOT make a XFS partition smaller. The only way to do so would be a complete dump, format and restore. If anyone is feeling adventerous contact the mailinglist. People will be glad to help out and give some directions. An XFS filesystem may be enlarged within a partition using xfs_growfs. You need to have free space after this partition to do so. Remove partition recreate it larger with exact same starting point. run xfs_growfs to make the partition larger. This operation is dangerous to your data Back up your filesystem before using this tool. Using XFS filesystems on top of LVM makes this a lot easier.