From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 16 15:33:22 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D445F16A41B for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:33:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from teemu.korhonen@mbnet.fi) Received: from astana.suomi.net (astana.suomi.net [82.128.152.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84FF513C469 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:33:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from teemu.korhonen@mbnet.fi) Received: from taku.suomi.net ([82.128.154.66]) by astana.suomi.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JUQ00C32RWD8WB0@astana.suomi.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:50:37 +0200 (EET) Received: from spam3.suomi.net (spam3.suomi.net [212.50.131.167]) by mailstore.suomi.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-4.01 (built Aug 3 2007; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0JUQ0011ORWCFOF0@mailstore.suomi.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:50:37 +0200 (EET) Received: from veneficus.koti.lan (82-128-201-63-Korvensuora-TR1.suomi.net [82.128.201.63]) by spam3.suomi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DFF922FAB0 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:34:31 +0200 (EET) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:34:27 +0200 From: Teemu Korhonen In-reply-to: <478DCC6C.8010605@mbnet.fi> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <478E15F3.7090809@mbnet.fi> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-DNA-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DNA-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DNA-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (SpamAssassin rebuilding) X-DNA-MailScanner-From: teemu.korhonen@mbnet.fi References: <478DCC6C.8010605@mbnet.fi> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071208) X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: growfs and soft updates X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:33:22 -0000 Teemu Korhonen wrote: > I'm merging my ext2-partition with my /usr by shrinking ext2 and doing > growfs on the free space. I did it with soft updates enabled and it > seemed to work until I tried to use /usr which resulted in kernel > panic (ffs_valloc: dup alloc). After plenty of 'fcsk -y' I got it > fixed while losing few random files. :( The errors were mostly related > to soft updates. > > Should soft updates be disabled before using growfs? > False alarm. It's all the same with soft updates disabled.. I guess growfs needs some work.