Thus spake Charles Sprickman on Wed, May 24, 2006 at 12:26:23AM -0400: [snip] > growfs seems to be the thing to use, but I'm seeing very little about it in > the archives. Is it reliable? Can it deal with large filesystems? Anyone > here have personal experience with it?
Funny you should ask -- I just got bitten by growfs. Was running out of room and decided to delete a partition and grow FreeBSD into that space. Am running 6.1-RELEASE on i386, no RAID, no SCSI. I used these tools: parted fdisk -u ... bsdlabel -e ... growfs -s ... I followed all tips/instructions I could find and was very careful, I thought. All seemed well until the final reboot, when FreeBSD would only mount all the partitions in the slice as *read-only*. Nothing I could try fixed it. It was also complaining about bad fs blocks, and fsck couldn't help. I had to start *all over* and install 6.1 from scratch. That's just my tale.... - Stephen -- Stephen Bartlett President, Bartlett Software, Inc. http://www.bartlettsoftware.biz/
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