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gfs_grow(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       gfs_grow(8)

NAME
gfs_grow - Expand a GFS filesystem SYNOPSIS
gfs_grow [OPTION]... <DEVICE|MOINTPOINT>... DESCRIPTION
gfs_grow is used to expand a GFS filesystem after the device upon which the filesystem resides has also been expanded. By running gfs_grow on a GFS 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 GFS 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. You may only run gfs_grow on a mounted filesystem; expansion of unmounted filesystems is not supported. You only need to run gfs_grow on one node in the cluster. All the other nodes will see the expansion has occurred and automatically start to use the newly available space. You must be superuser to execute gfs_grow. The gfs_grow tool tries to prevent you from corrupting your filesystem by checking as many of the likely problems as it can. When expanding a filesystem, only the last step of updating the resource index affects the currently mounted filesystem and so failure part way through the expansion process should leave your filesystem in its original unexpanded state. You can run gfs_grow with the -Tv flags to get a display of the current state of a mounted GFS filesystem. This can be useful to do after the expansion process to see if the changes have been successful. gfs_grow will consume all the remaining space in a device and add it to the filesystem. If you want to add journals too, you need to add the journals first using gfs_jadd. OPTIONS
-h Prints out a short usage message and exits. -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 filesystem. This is used to discover what the tool would have done were it run without this flag. You probably want to turn the verbosity level up in order to gain most informa- tion from this option. -V Version. Print out version information, then exit. -v Verbose. Turn up verbosity of messages. SEE ALSO
mkfs.gfs(8) gfs_jadd(8) gfs_grow(8)

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gfs_tool(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       gfs_tool(8)

NAME
gfs_tool - interface to gfs ioctl calls SYNOPSIS
gfs_tool COMMAND [OPTION] [PARAMETERS ...] DESCRIPTION
gfs_tool is an interface to a variety of the GFS ioctl calls. Specifying gfs_tool -h prints gfs_tool command line usage (help). Specifying gfs_tool -V prints the gfs_tool version information. COMMANDS
clearflag Flag File1 File2 ... Clear an attribute flag on a file. counters MountPoint [-c] [-i interval] Print out statistics about a filesystem. If -c is specified, gfs_tool keeps running printing out the statistics once per second or, if specified, the interval given with the -i option, in seconds. df MountPoint [-k]|[-H] Print out a space usage summary of a given filesystem. The information printed is more detailed than a standard "df". If -k is specified, the output is given in kilobytes (KB). If -H is specified, the output is given in human readable format (similar to df -h). If neither -k nor -H are specified, the output is given in file system blocks. freeze MountPoint Freeze (quiesce) a GFS cluster. getsb MountPoint Print out the superblock of a mounted filesystem. gettune MountPoint Print out the current values of the tuning parameters in a running filesystem. jindex MountPoint Print out the journal index of a mounted filesystem. layout File [buffersize] Print out on-disk layout information about a file or directory. Buffersize is the size of the buffer (in bytes) that gfs_tool allo- cates to store the file's metadata during processing. It defaults to 4194304 bytes. If you are printing a very big directory you may need to specify a bigger size. list List the currently mounted GFS filesystems. Each line represents a filesystem. The columns represent (in order): 1) A number that is a cookie that represents the mounted filesystem. 2) The name of the device that holds the filesystem (well, the name as the Linux kernel knows it). 3) The lock table field that the filesystem was mounted with. lockdump MountPoint [buffersize] Print out information about the locks this machine holds for a given filesystem. Buffersize is the size of the buffer (in bytes) that gfs_tool allocates to store the lock data during processing. It defaults to 4194304 bytes. margs arguments This loads arguments into the module what will override the mount options passed with the -o field on the next mount. See mount.gfs(8). reclaim File Returns unused on-disk metadata blocks to free blocks. rindex MountPoint Print out the resource group index of a mounted filesystem. quota MountPoint Print out the quota file of a mounted filesystem. Also see the "gfs_quota list" command. sb device proto [newvalue] View (and possibly replace) the name of the locking protocol in the file system superblock. The file system shouldn't be mounted by any client when you do this. sb device table [newvalue] View (and possibly replace) the name of the locking table in the file system superblock. The file system shouldn't be mounted by any client when you do this. sb device ondisk [newvalue] View (and possibly replace) the ondisk format number in the file system superblock. The file system shouldn't be mounted by any client when you do this. No one should have to use this. sb device multihost [newvalue] View (and possibly replace) the multihost format number in the file system superblock. The file system shouldn't be mounted by any client when you do this. No one should have to use this. sb device all Print out the superblock. setflag Flag File1 File2 ... Set an attribute flag on a file. There are four currently supported flags. They are jdata, directio, inherit_jdata, and inherit_directio. The jdata flag causes all the data written to a regular file to be journaled. The jdata flag can only be set (or cleared) if the file is zero length. The directio flag causes all I/O to a regular file to be Direct I/O, even if the O_DIRECT flag isn't used on the open() command. The inherit_jdata flag is set on a directory. It causes all new regular files created in that directory automatically inherit the jdata flag. The inherit_jdata is also inherited by any new subdirectories created in that directory. The inherit_directio flag is set on a directory. It causes all new regular files created in that directory automatically inherit the directio flag. The inherit_directio is also inherited by any new subdirectories created in that directory. settune MountPoint parameter newvalue Set the value of tuning parameter. Use gettune for a listing of tunable parameters. shrink MountPoint Causes any unused inodes to be thrown out of memory. stat File Print out extended stat information about a file. unfreeze MountPoint Unfreeze a GFS cluster. version Print out the version of GFS that this program goes with. withdraw MountPoint Cause GFS to abnormally shutdown a given filesystem on this node. gfs_tool(8)
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