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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
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Subject: Re: backgroud fsck is still locking up system (fwd)
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To: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 17:47:58 -0800 (PST)
Cc: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>,
	Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG,
	Thomas-Henning von Kamptz <tomsoft@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Kirk McKusick wrote:
> I suggest that we drag Thomas-Henning von Kamptz into this
> discussion as he was one of the main authors of growfs. He
> is copied on my reply.

Thanks.

FYI, I finally fixed things by doing what Julian suggested, which
is to copy / to /usr, reboot with /usr mounted as /, newfs /, and
then copy everything back.

So in summary my recommendation is to add a big warning to the
growfs(1) man page that is should not be run on the root partition,
even if you have booted single-user mode and haven't mounted / yet.
I.e., to grow a root partition, you must boot from a different partition.

-Archie

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