Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 10:11:59 -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: <407811.24624.qm@web30305.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <99c92b5f0705301004v698a3b4dma46684b4bf051fdb@mail.gmail.com>
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--- Richard Noorlandt <lists.freebsd@gmail.com> wrote: > I have now tried this out by making 2 devices on the RAID array, and > sticking the filesystems directly on /dev/da2 and /dev/da3 worked fine. > Next, I have grown the /dev/da3 device on the RAID controller to over 2 TB. > However, growfs refuses to grow. I get the following output: > > leviathan# growfs /dev/da3 > growfs: we are not growing (415143936->25134976) > Here r some messages about patching growfs: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=399737+0+archive/2007/freebsd-fs/20070527.freebsd-fs http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=213338+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2007/freebsd-fs/20070520.freebsd-fs http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=219513+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2007/freebsd-fs/20070520.freebsd-fs There is a patch: http://masq.tychl.net/growfs.patch WARNING: It is very untested... Try only if u really backed up ur data... -Arne ____________________________________________________________________________________Get the Yahoo! toolbar and be alerted to new email wherever you're surfing. http://new.toolbar.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/index.php
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