From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 6 15:20:12 2002 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 B8BBA37B401 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:20:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC56843EA9 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:20:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (12-232-168-4.client.attbi.com[12.232.168.4]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with ESMTP id <2002120623200900100qafmie>; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 23:20:09 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA47826; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:18:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:18:32 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Archie Cobbs Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backgroud fsck is still locking up system (fwd) In-Reply-To: <200212062252.gB6MqOhB066505@arch20m.dellroad.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I put a copy of / in /usr then from the fixit, I mounted /usr as / and ran growfs from there.. the trick is to not do it while / is mounted. On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Archie Cobbs wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: > > most systems follow / with their swap region.. > > > > you can boot from fixit, or picoBSD floppy > > and use disklabel -e to exend the root partition > > then you can use growfs to add the new space to your root fs. > > Hmm.. I tried that and it didn't seem to work. > > The disklabel change was successful, but growfs didn't seem to > expand the root partition any.. df(1) still shows it as 50M. > > I ran growfs after booting single user mode but before mounting > any disks.. perhaps that caused it to not work. > > Since that didn't work, I booted a 4.7-REL fixit floppy and tried > to run growfs from there, but then that growfs core dumped: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message