Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:38:52 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Lubomir Radev <lubomirr@sympatico.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: growfs question Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0205241035090.29324-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <000901c202e4$44217e80$0201a8c0@HAL9000>
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On Fri, 24 May 2002, Lubomir Radev wrote: > will growfs(8) work on a partition that has been re-labeled to > bigger size using some free space with offset _before_ that > partition and not after it? No. Dump and restore; alternatively (since the FS has to be offline for growfs to work anyway) you _might_ want to try using dd to shift your old FS image backwards in the partition, then using growfs. That falls into the realm of "interesting experiment" rather than hard-and-fast guaranteed clever idea. jan -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Don't annihilate, assimilate: MacDonalds, not missiles. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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