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On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 09:25:17 +0930
> From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
> To: Randy Smith <randys@amigo.net>
> Cc: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>,
>      "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: vinum question
>
> > I didn't do it when I attached the second subdisk. (The volume has
> > been in use a while and wiping the FS is not really an option.)
>
> That's what growfs is for.

I didn't see a pointer to the growfs man page from vinum(8), newfs(8), or
disklabel(8). Can I suggest that a link get added to, at least, vinum(8).

>
> > vinum(8) says that "It is possible to increase the size of a
> > concatenated vinum plex ..." so I would think that it could handle
> > it. Maybe I'm wrong.
>
> Vinum can handle it.  But Vinum just gives you a storage medium, it
> doesn't change the data on that medium.
>
> Greg

BTW: I had to growfs -y to get it to work but it did finally work. (I was
getting 'No Changes'.)

Thank you for your help.

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