Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:14:43 +0200 From: Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: growfs - Using on mounten FS - planned? Message-ID: <20041027201443.44f3bb03.lehmann@ans-netz.de> In-Reply-To: <20041027175440.GA60198@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20041027194551.54ced1e7.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20041027175440.GA60198@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 07:45:51PM +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > > > > But now I read growfs(8), and it is only possible to grow an unmounted > > filesystem which is bad for /usr (for example), and not nice at all. > > Are there any plans to make it work with mounted Filesystems? > > I don't think so; do it from single-user mode instead. Also note that > you can only grow into contiguous space, so if you have multiple > filesystems on the disk that you want to grow later, you have to > preallocate space in which to grow them (i.e. space them apart on the > disk) -- so you might as well just allocate the space to the FS to > begin with. I thought it would be as easy as it is with AIXs LVM. :) (just grow if your vg has free space, and by having it still mounted, and don't care about "where" the free space is) Because I liked the idea having free diskspace up one's sleeve which you can assign later, or for a new partition or sth. like that. But it looks like i should drop that thing. -- Oliver Lehmann http://www.pofo.de/ http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/
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