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@ 2009-02-23 15:24 Bob Peterson
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Commit: b6dffa47f936007ebe42319147e14cd400b9fc0e
Parent: 44d72f72fd0ebda45bf1991be00c751bdb4a1181
Author: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Feb 23 09:23:45 2009 -0600
Committer: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
CommitterDate: Mon Feb 23 09:23:45 2009 -0600
gfs2_grow man page references removed -r option
bz 486034
There is no -r option in gfs2_grow, so the man page reference
was wrong and therefore was removed. I also added a few lines
explaining about the rg size.
---
gfs2/man/gfs2_grow.8 | 13 +++++++------
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gfs2/man/gfs2_grow.8 b/gfs2/man/gfs2_grow.8
index 34348a0..bd37328 100644
--- a/gfs2/man/gfs2_grow.8
+++ b/gfs2/man/gfs2_grow.8
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ running gfs2_grow on a GFS2 filesystem, you are requesting that
any spare space between the current end of the filesystem and
the end of the device is filled with a newly initialized GFS2
filesystem extension. When this operation is complete, the resource
-index for the filesystem is updated so that all nodes in the
-cluster can use the extra storage space which has been added.
+group index for the filesystem is updated so that all nodes in the
+cluster can use the extra storage space that has been added.
You may only run gfs2_grow on a mounted filesystem; expansion of
unmounted filesystems is not supported. You only need to
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ should leave your filesystem in its original unexpanded state.
You can run gfs2_grow with the \fB-T\fP flag to get a display
of the current state of a mounted GFS2 filesystem.
+The gfs2_grow tool uses the resource group (RG) size that was originally
+calculated when mkfs.gfs2 was done. This allows tools like gfs2_fsck
+to better ensure the integrity of the file system. Since the new free
+space often does not lie on even boundaries based on that RG size,
+there may be some unused space on the device after gfs2_grow is run.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB-D\fP
@@ -44,10 +49,6 @@ Prints out a short usage message and exits.
\fB-q\fP
Be quiet. Don't print anything.
.TP
-\fB-r MegaBytes\fP
-gfs2_grow will try to make the new Resource Groups about this big.
-The default is 256 MB.
-.TP
\fB-T\fP
Test. Do all calculations, but do not write any data to the disk and do
not expand the filesystem. This is used to discover what the tool would
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