Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:48:44 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Teemu Korhonen <teemu.korhonen@mbnet.fi> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: growfs and soft updates Message-ID: <20080116174455.H1425@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <478E15F3.7090809@mbnet.fi> References: <478DCC6C.8010605@mbnet.fi> <478E15F3.7090809@mbnet.fi>
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>> (ffs_valloc: dup alloc). After plenty of 'fcsk -y' I got it fixed while >> losing few random files. :( The errors were mostly related to soft updates. >> >> Should soft updates be disabled before using growfs? >> > > False alarm. It's all the same with soft updates disabled.. I guess growfs > needs some work. ALWAYS fsck after growfs. growfs is crappy at least, zero out the new space before growfs, but just if you can - simply backup data somewhere and use newfs. growfs is for people that like challenges ;) i have to use it growing 800GB filesystem to 1400GB, finally (after patching it a bit) i did it, but root directory was destroyed (no idea why). all subdirs appeared in lost+found so it wasn't a big problem then+i've got zero sized file in lost+found that i was unable to delete until i took off all strange flash with chflags. but i did it ONLY because i had no way to back it up.
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