From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 25 14:48:40 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 8EE6F16A46C for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 14:48:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arne_woerner@yahoo.com) Received: from web30313.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web30313.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.69.75]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3DF9413C468 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 14:48:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arne_woerner@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 60513 invoked by uid 60001); 25 May 2007 14:48:39 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=XsWW+GkmpXmFysrXc1cODNlOIQkawPkRYiAcFwkAMPXHzpingxjk2qwU20Ea9g7YapwdNhpuFIWMEVOwFLPtWQq7WYcmYU1nuFLMGItyCeHI8lCtf4bzKWmU45CSLksiT7UDicNLn7CKTpMAB2ssx/9r5JjkuHNKpOMJafbl/do=; X-YMail-OSG: mWACoG0VM1ndMtjd2zmMI0FFTwZdhb.x_Ie3bnR5Z2npJmdVfpYrAUQ3Kf8gen2pnRcaJwMWif3YJAJCBTlNdcBZccuShGaXZmx1sbLI4nBse5vPuGzGdCrPyL6bEA-- Received: from [85.212.48.7] by web30313.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 25 May 2007 07:48:39 PDT Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 07:48:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Arne "Wörner" To: Nick Gustas In-Reply-To: <4656D8B5.4090806@tychl.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <669449.60013.qm@web30313.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org 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: Fri, 25 May 2007 14:48:40 -0000 --- Nick Gustas 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