Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 08:59:37 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Thomas-Henning von Kamptz <tomsoft@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: backgroud fsck is still locking up system (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021207085857.9402H-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20021207235810.C12406-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Archie Cobbs wrote: > > > So in summary my recommendation is to add a big warning to the > > growfs(1) man page that is should not be run on the root partition, > > even if you have booted single-user mode and haven't mounted / yet. > > I.e., to grow a root partition, you must boot from a different partition. > > Er, it should be obvious that growfs can't reasonably work on the mounted > partitions. growfs.1 doesn't exist, but growfs.8 already has the warning > in a general form: > > .... Currently growfs can only enlarge unmounted file systems. Do not > try enlarging a mounted file system, your system may panic and you will > not be able to use the file system any longer... Hmm. I guess one of the interesting questions is: what happened to the safety belts? I would have thought that GEOM would prevent opening the partition writable while it was mounted... Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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