Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 17:55:57 +0200 From: "Richard Noorlandt" <lists.freebsd@gmail.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Growing UFS beyond 2 TB Message-ID: <99c92b5f0705240855n4fb4c4d8xd5dbee26bdb52222@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <82231.51840.qm@web30307.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <99c92b5f0705240730o146c1bb4x326591687e445cd@mail.gmail.com> <82231.51840.qm@web30307.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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2007/5/24, Arne W=F6rner <arne_woerner@yahoo.com>: > > --- Richard Noorlandt <lists.freebsd@gmail.com> wrote: > > Does anyone have a suggestion? Or am I overlooking something? I can > hardly > > imagine that what I want is very rare, so I think there must be some > > solution. > > > 1. A better implementation for GPT is on its way... I think, the time > frame was > "several weeks"... It is in the archive of this list or freebsd-geom@... Will it be possible to create the tables with the current GPT tool, and later grow them safely with the new tool when it's available? It'll take some time before I need the extra TB's, so waiting a few weeks before I can grow the partitions and FS is no problem. As long as I can grow it without losing data. 2. I wonder, why u dont just delete all GPT partitions and re-create them > (after u wrote down offset and size of the previous config)... :-) > Wouldn't this destroy the data that's on the partitions? The problem is tha= t I have no way to backup or temporary store the data on the array. So all growing must be done without wiping the contents of the FS. Best regards, Richard
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