Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 08:34:04 -0400 From: Tony Holmes <tony@crosswinds.net> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding gjournal to existing disks? Message-ID: <20070706123404.GE76785@crosswinds.net> In-Reply-To: <f6l62p$32v$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <20070706003503.GA35917@crosswinds.net> <f6l62p$32v$1@sea.gmane.org>
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On +Jul 06, Ivan Voras wrote: > Tony Holmes wrote: > > >So lots of space free on the stripe. I read the man page for 7-Current but > >it is unclear if a both the journal and data can exist in the same > >partition. > > Only if the file system was created like that (because it's a hack - the > journal is still not a part of the file system but exists in the space > between the end of the file system and the end of the slice/partition). > > If you want to add it later, you need to create a separate > slice/partition and put gjournal on it. Thanks for the quick answer! I was hoping this wasn't the case but I had to be 100% certain. Are there any tools to shrink a partition? :) When I lost power on this system the mirrors weren't synced so the gmirror sync + fsync kept the system down for 1.5 hours - that hurt. -- Tony Holmes Ph: (416) 993-1219 Founder and Senior Systems Architect Crosswinds Internet Communications Inc.
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