Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 07:48:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Arne "Wörner" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> To: Nick Gustas <freebsd-fs@tychl.net> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Growing UFS beyond 2 TB Message-ID: <669449.60013.qm@web30313.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <4656D8B5.4090806@tychl.net>
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--- Nick Gustas <freebsd-fs@tychl.net> wrote: > No complaints about arg 3 being the wrong datatype or signed vs unsigned > errors, at least on AMD64. Doesn't mean it'll do what we need though! :) > Cool... > It seems you are right, I just tried to grow a ~500GB filesystem to > about 990GB on a i386 6.2 server, fsck had a fit even though the file > system was mountable. Second run of fsck is still going! > Yup... I saw that, too... Although I am unable to reproduce that with an empty file system... When I saw it the first time, I used a quite full file system... > I thought I had tried growfs successfully on a sub 2TB FS sometime > around 5.4 or 5.5, maybe I was mistaken. It was on a 4TB server, so when > growfs gave a weird display when I tried it to grow a 2TB FS to 3TB, I > never tried it again and bought all the drives I needed to fill the > chassis right away. > Sometimes it works with no prob... -Arne ____________________________________________________________________________________ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php
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