Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:59:48 -0500 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: John Pettitt <jpp@cloudview.com> Subject: Re: does growfs actually work on -stable? Message-ID: <200612291259.49146.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <4594C631.9020001@cloudview.com> References: <4594C631.9020001@cloudview.com>
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On Friday 29 December 2006 02:39, John Pettitt wrote: > I tried to grow a 600GB filesystem to 1TB and growfs barfed complaining > about a negative block number - this was a raid array (highpoint) that > looks like one drive (da0) to the system. Does growfs actually work - > google searches were not much help ... I used it successfully a couple months ago (6.1-STABLE most likely). IIRC, you need to resize the slice (fdisk) and the partition (bsdlabel) yourself before calling growfs. I think this was just on a standalone IDE disk. I don't recall the size details. HTH, JN
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