How to Increase xfs File System

How to Increase or expand an XFS File System without LVM

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NOTE: make sure, that you test first on our test system!

Following is the File System we want to increase.

/dev/sdb1       100G   88G   13G  88% /oracle

Step 1. Increase a hardware disk size in VMWare to 150GB

Using VMWare vSphere Client, open the properties of the virtual machine and increase the Provisioned Size.

Step2. Stop the running Application on Server

Step3. Unmount the partition

umount /oracle

or

umount -l /oracle

df -Th

Step4. Start to increase the partition.

parted -a optimal /dev/sdb

GNU Parted 3.1

Using /dev/sdb

Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.

(parted) unit s

(parted) print

Model: VMware Virtual disk (scsi)

Disk /dev/sdb: 314572800s

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: msdos

Disk Flags:

Number  Start  End         Size        Type     File system  Flags

 1      2048s  209715199s  209713152s  primary  xfs

(parted) rm 1

Error: Partition(s) 1 on /dev/sdb have been written, but we have been unable to inform the kernel of the change, probably because it/they are in use.  As a result, the old partition(s) will remain in use.  You should reboot now

before making further changes.

Ignore/Cancel? Ignore

(parted) mkpart

Partition type?  primary/extended? primary

File system type?  [ext2]? xfs

Start? 2048s

End? 100%

(parted) print

Model: VMware Virtual disk (scsi)

Disk /dev/sdb: 314572800s

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: msdos

Disk Flags:

Number  Start  End         Size        Type     File system  Flags

 1      2048s  314572799s  314570752s  primary  xfs

(parted) unit compact

(parted) quit

Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab.

Step5.

mount /oracle

xfs_growfs -d /oracle

meta-data=/dev/sdb1              isize=512    agcount=4, agsize=6553536 blks

         =                       sectsz=512   attr=2, projid32bit=1

         =                       crc=1        finobt=0 spinodes=0

data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=26214144, imaxpct=25

         =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks

naming   =version 2              bsize=4096   ascii-ci=0 ftype=1

log      =internal               bsize=4096   blocks=12799, version=2

         =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1

realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0

data blocks changed from 26214144 to 39321344

Step6.

df -Th /oracle

Filesystem     Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/sdb1      xfs   150G   88G   63G  59% /oracle

Completed.