On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Bruce Evans wrote: > 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...
Hmm. I guess one of the interesting questions is: what happened to the safety belts? I would have thought that GEOM would prevent opening the partition writable while it was mounted... Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
