Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 09:27:33 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Rishi Chopra <rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: growfs says 'we are not growing' ?!?! Message-ID: <20031204152733.GG32713@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <3FCEF97C.2020401@cal.berkeley.edu> References: <3FCEF97C.2020401@cal.berkeley.edu>
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In the last episode (Dec 04), Rishi Chopra said: > Trying to enlarge a partition (/usr) on a slice (da0s1) with plenty of > space: > > # fdisk > > The data for partition 1 is: > sysid 165 (0xa5), (FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 63, size 1171861362 (572197 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1 > end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 > > # df -h: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s1a 193M 80M 98M 45% / > /dev/da0s1d 193M 5.9M 172M 3% /var > /dev/da0s1e 1.9G 670M 1.1G 37% /usr > > But when I try: > > # umount /usr > # growfs /dev/da0s1e You need to extend your e slice (with disklabel -e da0s1) first. You've got three "container" objects: Fdisk slices, BSD partitions, and filesystem. You've grown the slice, but you need to also expand the partition before growfs can resize the filesystem. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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