From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 27 18:14:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D703B16A4CF for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:14:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dill.salatschuessel.net (pD95FD812.dip.t-dialin.net [217.95.216.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75C8A43D5C for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:14:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lehmann@ans-netz.de) Received: (qmail 92592 invoked by uid 89); 27 Oct 2004 18:14:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO kartoffel.salatschuessel.net) (olivleh1@dill.salatschuessel.net@10.0.1.51) by dill.salatschuessel.net with SMTP; 27 Oct 2004 18:14:43 -0000 Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:14:43 +0200 From: Oliver Lehmann To: Kris Kennaway Message-Id: <20041027201443.44f3bb03.lehmann@ans-netz.de> In-Reply-To: <20041027175440.GA60198@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20041027194551.54ced1e7.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20041027175440.GA60198@xor.obsecurity.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.99 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.10) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: growfs - Using on mounten FS - planned? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:14:19 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 07:45:51PM +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > > > > But now I read growfs(8), and it is only possible to grow an unmounted > > filesystem which is bad for /usr (for example), and not nice at all. > > Are there any plans to make it work with mounted Filesystems? > > I don't think so; do it from single-user mode instead. Also note that > you can only grow into contiguous space, so if you have multiple > filesystems on the disk that you want to grow later, you have to > preallocate space in which to grow them (i.e. space them apart on the > disk) -- so you might as well just allocate the space to the FS to > begin with. I thought it would be as easy as it is with AIXs LVM. :) (just grow if your vg has free space, and by having it still mounted, and don't care about "where" the free space is) Because I liked the idea having free diskspace up one's sleeve which you can assign later, or for a new partition or sth. like that. But it looks like i should drop that thing. -- Oliver Lehmann http://www.pofo.de/ http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/