Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 18:55:22 -1000 From: Stephen Bartlett <stephen@bartlettsoftware.biz> To: Charles Sprickman <spork@fasttrackmonkey.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: state of growfs? Message-ID: <20060524045522.GA842@daemon.localdomain.local> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSX.4.61.0605240026020.2993@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> References: <Pine.OSX.4.61.0605240026020.2993@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com>
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--0F1p//8PRICkK4MW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thus spake Charles Sprickman on Wed, May 24, 2006 at 12:26:23AM -0400: [snip] > growfs seems to be the thing to use, but I'm seeing very little about it = in=20 > the archives. Is it reliable? Can it deal with large filesystems? Anyon= e=20 > here have personal experience with it? Funny you should ask -- I just got bitten by growfs. Was running out of room and decided to delete a partition and grow FreeBSD into that space. Am running 6.1-RELEASE on i386, no RAID, no SCSI. =20 I used these tools: parted fdisk -u ... bsdlabel -e ... growfs -s ... I followed all tips/instructions I could find and was very careful, I thought. All seemed well until the final reboot, when FreeBSD would only mount all the partitions in the slice as *read-only*. Nothing I could try fixed it. It was also complaining about bad fs blocks, and fsck couldn't help. I had to start *all over* and install 6.1 from scratch. That's just my tale.... - Stephen --=20 Stephen Bartlett President, Bartlett Software, Inc. http://www.bartlettsoftware.biz/ --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEc+c6R7d3GIt7UjgRApBPAJ9/shQ1k7hb6DobXY9RP/sa30TAtACfXglE wio0BhOjJv+zWu58riuT/EM= =lyCv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW--
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