From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 7 5: 2:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3509737B401; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 05:02:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F05DB43EBE; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 05:02:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from katana.zip.com.au (katana.zip.com.au [61.8.7.246]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA29367; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 00:01:59 +1100 Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 00:02:13 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: Archie Cobbs Cc: Kirk McKusick , Julian Elischer , , Thomas-Henning von Kamptz Subject: Re: backgroud fsck is still locking up system (fwd) In-Reply-To: <200212070147.gB71lwS5067579@arch20m.dellroad.org> Message-ID: <20021207235810.C12406-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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... Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message