From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 24 16:21:45 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A177B16A400 for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 16:21:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arne_woerner@yahoo.com) Received: from web30305.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web30305.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.69.67]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67B6113C448 for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 16:21:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arne_woerner@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 23723 invoked by uid 60001); 24 May 2007 16:21:44 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=KRhyDbHvYg2kh3xltc44Ai8ofVGGkFt7zkv7bkI0a2lZCXiKT9PxhQdlR4hPZi1xQPLfxxLfGU4cqyvIoSPh+MfRrZUq32PiMLWQH4tvj4eq6HWLD70sQyJs0kBXkvCLi7uAzG4RS1KIaj3TYNxeNEhPla6qYIbQ4/F/5PQrmv8=; X-YMail-OSG: 2CjIt6cVM1kmi12rp6BGgfgwC6mK6trNEPcXs3LTFA4GKIs6pUU.o53SIk5vHZ5zBYYN53Gi2gj5Qc0GhzYqFKWpV5TJxa_tTNNXDXU27ayj.D5rO2bY2oKUTLgz5g-- Received: from [213.54.162.102] by web30305.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 24 May 2007 09:21:44 PDT Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 09:21:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Arne "Wörner" To: Richard Noorlandt , freebsd-fs@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <99c92b5f0705240855n4fb4c4d8xd5dbee26bdb52222@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <889751.23477.qm@web30305.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Cc: Subject: Re: Growing UFS beyond 2 TB X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:21:45 -0000 --- Richard Noorlandt wrote: > 2007/5/24, Arne Wörner : > > 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. > Dont know... > > 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 that > 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. > Dont know... I dont know how GPT works... But fdisk for example just fumbles around in the first 63 sectors of a disk... And I would strongly guess, that GPT does it similar... U could try it with a little test disk... or so... -Arne ____________________________________________________________________________________Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545469