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Date:      Sat, 23 May 2015 22:51:23 -0700
From:      Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>
To:        Michael Dexter <editor@callfortesting.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Possible growfs regression on r280862: Tue Mar 31/PANDABOARD snapshot
Message-ID:  <493109F5-4ECB-463F-BD1C-A737CA38BE3A@kientzle.com>
In-Reply-To: <551EE431.10408@callfortesting.org>
References:  <551EE431.10408@callfortesting.org>

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> On Apr 3, 2015, at 12:04 PM, Michael Dexter =
<editor@callfortesting.org> wrote:
>=20
>=20
> Hello all,
>=20
> I have been experimenting with the FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #0 r280130: =
Mon
> Mar 16 and FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #0 r280862: Tue Mar 31 and I noticed
> that the latter is not running growfs on boot. (It is also not =
reporting
> the system's available memory at boot time.)

Sorry for the late response.

I believe this is fixed for Crochet-built images now.

> I tried manually growing the filesystem using a memory device and =
while
> the gpart resize went fine, the growfs would not work but I could =
easily
> have the syntax wrong:
. . . snip . . .
>=20
> [root@pcbsd] /root/snapshots# gpart resize -i 2 md1
> md1s2 resized
> [root@pcbsd] /root/snapshots# gpart show md1
> =3D>     63  8388545  md1  MBR  (4.0G)
>       63     4095    1  !12  [active]  (2.0M)
>     4158  8384450    2  freebsd  (4.0G)
>=20
> [root@pcbsd] /root/snapshots# growfs /dev/md1s2a

You=E2=80=99ve resized md1s2 but now have to =E2=80=98gpart resize=E2=80=99=
 md1s2a before you can growfs it.

No, this is not obvious, which is why it=E2=80=99s nice to have it =
scripted into the system.  ;-)

> growfs: requested size 952MB is not larger than the current filesystem
> size 952MB
> [root@pcbsd] /root/snapshots# growfs -s 4G /dev/md1s2a
> growfs: requested size 4.0GB is larger than the available 952MB

Cheers,

Tim





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