From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 27 12:46:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 054E537B401 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 12:46:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A5B543EB2 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 12:46:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A916C51916; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 07:16:49 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 07:16:49 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Thomas Connolly Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: increasing the size of a file system Message-ID: <20021127204649.GD37740@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200211221834.20396.tconnolly@electrosoftsolutions.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200211221834.20396.tconnolly@electrosoftsolutions.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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