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Subject: Re: Is growfs(8) safe?
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On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:23:12 -0500, Lev Serebryakov <lev@freebsd.org>  
wrote:

>  Is growfs(8) safe now? I remember, there were some problems with
> non-zeroed data, but it seems to be fixed.


We use it regularly at work to grow customer's VMs. Generally they're no
larger than like 120GB though.


Regards,


Mark