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Date:      Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:18:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: backgroud fsck is still locking up system (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212061517060.26728-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <200212062252.gB6MqOhB066505@arch20m.dellroad.org>

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I put a copy of / in /usr
then from the fixit, I mounted /usr as / and ran growfs from there..
the trick is to not do it while / is mounted.


On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Archie Cobbs wrote:

> Julian Elischer wrote:
> > most systems follow / with their swap region..
> > 
> > you can boot from fixit, or picoBSD floppy 
> > and use disklabel -e to exend the root partition
> > then you can use growfs to add the new space to your root fs.
> 
> Hmm.. I tried that and it didn't seem to work.
> 
> The disklabel change was successful, but growfs didn't seem to
> expand the root partition any.. df(1) still shows it as 50M.
> 
> I ran growfs after booting single user mode but before mounting
> any disks.. perhaps that caused it to not work.
> 
> Since that didn't work, I booted a 4.7-REL fixit floppy and tried
> to run growfs from there, but then that growfs core dumped:



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