I have a 70 GB filesystem mounted from a loopback file that needed more space. I increased the size of the file from 75161928000 to 75200000000 (starting conservative) via
sudo truncate -s 75170000000 preproduction-7.1.1.xfs
But attempting to grow the xfs filesystem with just "xfs_growfs /mnt/doc.neu/" had no effect, with the "-d" flag it returned "data size unchanged, skipping", and using the -D flag just adding one block to it, it says it's too large
$ sudo xfs_growfs -D 18350081 /mnt/doc.neu/
meta-data=/dev/loop0 isize=256 agcount=5, agsize=3932160 blks
= sectsz=512 attr=2
data = bsize=4096 blocks=18350080, imaxpct=25
= sunit=0 swidth=0 blks
naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0
log =internal bsize=4096 blocks=7680, version=2
= sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1
realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0
data size 18350081 too large, maximum is 18350080
Am I missing something?
Best Answer
If you are using
losetup
you need to useto have the block device's size updated to the size of the file backing it. From the manpage: