Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:26:27 -0500 From: "Kristopher Yates" <kris_yates64@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: growfs HELP Message-ID: <BAY103-F424E1E193E8828920B11AEB1B0@phx.gbl>
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Hi everyone, First of all, glad to still be running FBSD after all these years. I tried following some docs I found online in order to make my /usr partition bigger and made it all the way to growfs -s, which is where I got stuck. First of all, here was my original dilema, what I did, then a descript of where I am regarding growfs problem. System (aka firewall): Pentium60 40M RAM 2 NICS, running FBSD4.5-stable (a great firewall running 24/7 since OCT 2000.) I tried to upgrade (make buildword make installworld to 4.11-stable).. I made the new world and installed the new kernel but not quite enough space to do the last steps (mergemaster and then installworld). So I built a spare box, and installed FBSD on it. I put the hard drive from the firewall as secondary master, and a larger drive as secondary slave. * I ran dd and imaged the old drive onto the new drive old drive seagate 1.2gb new drive quantum 4.3gb * I put the new drive into the old faithful P60 (firewall). It boots up fine running 4.11-p22 and is currently online as my firewall. What is left to do: Finish the 4.11 install which ended on make kernel KERNCONF=CUSTOMKERN.. I just need to mergemaster then installworld as single user. Obviously, /usr partition (/dev/ad0s1f) is basically full w/ 8.6MB free. ** soo.. I did some fdisk magic and got stuck on the growfs (final step) in order to growfs /usr fdisk reports my 1 partition @ full size of disk but no idea how to properly use growfs. Here is what I have: cylinders=8895 heads=15 sectors/track=63 (945blks/cyl) media sector size 512 partition 1 sysid 165, start 63, size 8405712 (4104 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/head 1 / sector 1 end: cyl 1023 / head 14 / sector 63 basically I need help filling in the following blank (/dev/ad0s1f == /usr slice) # growfs -s ______ /dev/ad0s1f as shown above, fdisk sees the correct geometry as 4104MB partition but /stand/sysinstall disklabel editor sees ad0s1 as 2888MB, which is the amount of space I thought I was to be adding to /usr via growfs. Currently, my /usr slice is 975MB and really needs to grow. :) Please let me know what other info I can provide that will help you help me solve this problem. I have read man growfs and some docs online, however, I'm stuck and dont know exactly how to resolve the problem. Much thanks, Kris _________________________________________________________________ Find a local pizza place, music store, museum and more…then map the best route! http://local.live.com
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