Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 09:21:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Arne "Wörner" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> To: Richard Noorlandt <lists.freebsd@gmail.com>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Growing UFS beyond 2 TB Message-ID: <889751.23477.qm@web30305.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <99c92b5f0705240855n4fb4c4d8xd5dbee26bdb52222@mail.gmail.com>
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--- Richard Noorlandt <lists.freebsd@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/5/24, Arne Wörner <arne_woerner@yahoo.com>:
> > 1. A better implementation for GPT is on its way... I think, the time
> > frame was
> > "several weeks"... It is in the archive of this list or freebsd-geom@...
>
> Will it be possible to create the tables with the current GPT tool, and
> later grow them safely with the new tool when it's available? It'll take
> some time before I need the extra TB's, so waiting a few weeks before I can
> grow the partitions and FS is no problem. As long as I can grow it without
> losing data.
>
Dont know...
> > 2. I wonder, why u dont just delete all GPT partitions and re-create them
> > (after u wrote down offset and size of the previous config)... :-)
> >
>
> Wouldn't this destroy the data that's on the partitions? The problem is that
> I have no way to backup or temporary store the data on the array. So all
> growing must be done without wiping the contents of the FS.
>
Dont know... I dont know how GPT works... But fdisk for example just fumbles
around in the first 63 sectors of a disk... And I would strongly guess, that
GPT does it similar...
U could try it with a little test disk... or so...
-Arne
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