Growing an xfs partition

[Bill Davidson]

On 11:43 Fri 10 Sep     , Kurt Wall wrote:
> In a 0.5K blaze of typing glory, Bill Davidson wrote:
> > I have 2 partitions on the end of my drive: hde11 and hde3. I deleted hde3 and
> > resized it to a smaller size and put it on the end of the drive. Now I have
> > space between hde11 and hde3. I'd like hde11 to occupy the remaining space.
> > However, I'm a bit unclear on how to do this. It seems that I could do
> > 'xfs_growfs -d /home'. Will that do what I want? The man page isn't that clear
> > to me.
> 
> http://www.newsforge.com/os/03/10/07/2028234.shtml

Thanks. Worked like a charm. My confusion came from the fact that I thought
xfs_growfs could change the partition size and write to the partition table. I
guess that would be asking it to do too many things.

Bill