From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 8 20:22:45 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 20:22:44 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A98937B400 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 20:22:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eB94MRs54206; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 21:22:27 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id VAA17719; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 21:22:26 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200012090422.VAA17719@harmony.village.org> To: Goblin Subject: Re: growfs(8) for FreeBSD Cc: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, growfs@tomsoft.com In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 08 Dec 2000 15:40:36 CST." <20001208154036.A645@msp-65-25-230-128.yahoo.com> References: <20001208154036.A645@msp-65-25-230-128.yahoo.com> <20001208113836.B32113@cichlids.cichlids.com> <4.3.2.7.0.20001208204155.00cbee40@mail.drwilco.net> Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 21:22:26 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: imp@harmony.village.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20001208154036.A645@msp-65-25-230-128.yahoo.com> Goblin writes: : I can certainly see where "cat /dev/<1GBdevice> > /dev/<10GBdevice>" : situations would make a growfs useful w/out vinum... : : And, removing a failing disk from the end of a a vinum concat volume : would make shrinkfs really nice. I recently did that to "upgrade" my laptop hard disk. Execpt I had to also do dump/restore for the FreeBSD partitions. growfs would have been sweet. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message