Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 07:16:49 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Thomas Connolly <tconnolly@electrosoftsolutions.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: increasing the size of a file system Message-ID: <20021127204649.GD37740@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200211221834.20396.tconnolly@electrosoftsolutions.com> References: <200211221834.20396.tconnolly@electrosoftsolutions.com>
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On Friday, 22 November 2002 at 18:38:31 -0700, Thomas Connolly wrote: > Hello all. I am having a problem installing a very large program. It wants > to extract itself to the /tmp directory but there is not enough space. I > have a 30 Gb hard drive that is only 20% full so there is plenty of free > space to work with. I've tried increasing the size of the file system as > follows: > > umount -f /dev/ad0s1f > growfs -s 4194304 /dev/ad0s1f > > I get an error similar to the following: > file system not grown (137xxxx -> 137xxxx) [not sure of the exact values] > > Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong or is there another work around such > as making the program think that /tmp is really somewhere else with more > space? What does disklabel ad0s1 say? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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