Hi there --

Actually, all can be done on the fly. But its better to be safe. Perform
the task when there's low i/o tied to the filesystem.

example:
/etc/vx/bin/vxresize -F |vxfs -g DG VOLNAME <+/- size m|g>

Hope this helps.

"Steve" wrote:
>
>I understand the requirement that a file system must be mounted to run vxresize
>but need to know whether the file system must be in a quiesced state prior
>to executing the vxresize command. What are the pitfalls, if any, for executing
>the command when the file system is busy?