Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 00:02:13 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> Cc: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>, Thomas-Henning von Kamptz <tomsoft@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: backgroud fsck is still locking up system (fwd) Message-ID: <20021207235810.C12406-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <200212070147.gB71lwS5067579@arch20m.dellroad.org>
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On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> 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.
Er, it should be obvious that growfs can't reasonably work on the mounted
partitions. growfs.1 doesn't exist, but growfs.8 already has the warning
in a general form:
.... Currently growfs can only enlarge unmounted file systems. Do not
try enlarging a mounted file system, your system may panic and you will
not be able to use the file system any longer...
Bruce
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