From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 11 5:17: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from acampi.inet.it (acampi.inet.it [213.92.4.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 94DC237B718 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 05:17:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrea@webcom.it) Received: (qmail 55252 invoked from network); 11 Mar 2001 14:15:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO webcom.it) (212.239.10.243) by acampi.inet.it with SMTP; 11 Mar 2001 14:15:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 599 invoked by uid 1000); 11 Mar 2001 13:13:38 -0000 Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 14:13:38 +0100 From: Andrea Campi To: current@freebsd.org Subject: growfs Message-ID: <20010311141337.A510@webcom.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Echelon: BND CIA NSA Mossad KGB MI6 IRA detonator nuclear assault strike Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was about to fill in a doc PR on this but then I thought I'm better off checking other people experiences... I just used growfs on my / filesystem, after shrinking the swap partition which just happened to be after it. I had to do nothing magic beside dropping to single user so as to have a ro /. This is in contrast to what the man page says: system on the specified special file. Currently growfs can only grow un- mounted file systems. Do not try growing a mounted file system, your system may panic and you will not be able to use the file system any longer. Most of the options you have used with newfs(8) once can not be changed. In fact you can only increase the size of the file system. Use Is this just extra paranoia or was I very lucky? Do we need to fix the doc? Bye, Andrea -- Yes, I've heard of "decaf." What's your point? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message