Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 19:04:54 +0200 From: "Richard Noorlandt" <lists.freebsd@gmail.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Growing UFS beyond 2 TB Message-ID: <99c92b5f0705301004v698a3b4dma46684b4bf051fdb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <99c92b5f0705270921x36cdb1afl6c6ef1a3cc949091@mail.gmail.com> References: <99c92b5f0705240730o146c1bb4x326591687e445cd@mail.gmail.com> <000701c79e62$2c9c4190$85d4c4b0$@com> <99c92b5f0705270921x36cdb1afl6c6ef1a3cc949091@mail.gmail.com>
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2007/5/25, Jan Mikkelsen <janm@transactionware.com>: > > You can use the Areca controller to create separate devices/LUNs,and then > ignore fdisk/gpt/labels altogether for the large filesystem you want to > grow, and just stick the filesystem directly on /dev/da1, or whatever it > ends up being. > I have now tried this out by making 2 devices on the RAID array, and sticking the filesystems directly on /dev/da2 and /dev/da3 worked fine. Next, I have grown the /dev/da3 device on the RAID controller to over 2 TB. However, growfs refuses to grow. I get the following output: leviathan# growfs /dev/da3 growfs: we are not growing (415143936->25134976) Why doesn't it want to grow? And more importantly, how can I fix it. Regards, Richard
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