Re: state of growfs?
- From: Stephen Bartlett <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 18:55:22 -1000
Thus spake Charles Sprickman on Wed, May 24, 2006 at 12:26:23AM -0400:
[snip]
growfs seems to be the thing to use, but I'm seeing very little about it in
the archives. Is it reliable? Can it deal with large filesystems? Anyone
here have personal experience with it?
Funny you should ask -- I just got bitten by growfs.
Was running out of room and decided to delete a partition and grow FreeBSD
into that space. Am running 6.1-RELEASE on i386, no RAID, no SCSI.
I used these tools:
parted
fdisk -u ...
bsdlabel -e ...
growfs -s ...
I followed all tips/instructions I could find and was very careful, I
thought. All seemed well until the final reboot, when FreeBSD would only
mount all the partitions in the slice as *read-only*. Nothing I could try
fixed it. It was also complaining about bad fs blocks, and fsck couldn't
help. I had to start *all over* and install 6.1 from scratch.
That's just my tale....
- Stephen
--
Stephen Bartlett
President, Bartlett Software, Inc.
http://www.bartlettsoftware.biz/
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