From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 24 2:40:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27F0C37B40B for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 02:40:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Fri, 24 May 2002 10:40:20 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 17BBXA-0001ES-00; Fri, 24 May 2002 10:38:52 +0100 Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:38:52 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Lubomir Radev Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: growfs question In-Reply-To: <000901c202e4$44217e80$0201a8c0@HAL9000> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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