From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 17 16:30:45 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E1D116A400 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 16:30:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hv@tuebingen.mpg.de) Received: from tuebingen.mpg.de (smtp-out.tuebingen.mpg.de [192.124.26.249]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC31013C447 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 16:30:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hv@tuebingen.mpg.de) Received: from [87.179.101.162] (HELO [192.168.2.32]) by tuebingen.mpg.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 33942741 for freebsd-fs@freebsd.org; Thu, 17 May 2007 18:30:43 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Message-Id: <7DE7C08F-8491-4503-AB77-E5D6A99308DE@tuebingen.mpg.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Apple-Mail-20--751215928" From: Henry Vogt Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 18:30:46 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.1.2 (Tiger) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: growfs filesystem size limits ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 16:30:45 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --Apple-Mail-20--751215928 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed While growing filesystems < 2TB (on FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE) works (even =20 with negative superblocknumbers in the output) it seems impossible to grow larger filesystems: Trying to grow a filesystem from ~4TB to ~6TB on a disk with a GPT =20 (single partition) start size index contents 0 1 PMBR 1 1 Pri GPT header 2 32 Pri GPT table 34 14648432573 1 GPT part - FreeBSD UFS/UFS2 14648432607 32 Sec GPT table 14648432639 1 Sec GPT header growfs fails: growfs: we are not growing (2197264879->440882671) What are the limits, are they bound to the largest possible bsdlabel =20 (i.e unsupported beyond 2^31-1 Sectors) ? Is it possible to grow such a filesystem ? What am i doing wrong ? Hints appreciated. Henry -- Netzwerk- und System Administration am MPI Campus T=FCbingen. Email: hv@tuebingen.mpg.de Tel. 07071/601-511 --Apple-Mail-20--751215928 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: Signierter Teil der Nachricht content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iD8DBQFGTIM2iF3PvXvQ0FARAolTAJ4z/GwDUkAuVc56ncGybMp8ihWnsgCfc2JZ Sv5HNiANF6Z6zHt+zIuVX6c= =F7uy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-20--751215928--