Re: ffs2

2014-03-18 Thread Craig R. Skinner
On 2014-03-17 Mon 21:19 PM |, Adam Thompson wrote: > OK, obviously I missed something. > How do you resize ffs filesystems without a dump/restore step? http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/207756

Re: ffs2

2014-03-17 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/17/14 22:19, Adam Thompson wrote: > OK, obviously I missed something. How do you resize ffs filesystems without > a dump/restore step? > -Adam man growfs short version: * check your backup. * dismount partition in question * enlarge the disklabel partition by changing the endpoint * r

Re: ffs2

2014-03-17 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On 3/17/14 10:19 PM, Adam Thompson wrote: > OK, obviously I missed something. How do you resize ffs filesystems without > a dump/restore step? > -Adam http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=growfs

Re: ffs2

2014-03-17 Thread Adam Thompson
OK, obviously I missed something. How do you resize ffs filesystems without a dump/restore step? -Adam On March 17, 2014 8:40:34 PM CDT, Nick Holland wrote: >On 03/17/14 21:24, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> On 2014-03-17, Nick Holland wrote: >>> (Exception: when you make a partition small enough

Re: ffs2

2014-03-17 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/17/14 21:24, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2014-03-17, Nick Holland wrote: >> (Exception: when you make a partition small enough to be ffs, but plan >> to growfs it later to a bigger size -- growfs works on ffs and ffs2, but >> doesn't convert from one to the other. Oh poo. Just realized I

Re: ffs2

2014-03-17 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014-03-17, Nick Holland wrote: > (Exception: when you make a partition small enough to be ffs, but plan > to growfs it later to a bigger size -- growfs works on ffs and ffs2, but > doesn't convert from one to the other. Oh poo. Just realized I forgot > to do this recently... ) But you have

Re: ffs2

2014-03-16 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/16/14 17:43, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 09:53:29PM +0100, carsten.ku...@arcor.de wrote: >> > i just want to know how to format a partition in OpenBSD for ffs2 ? >> >> You could have a look in the newfs(8) manpage for the option "-O". -O 2 >> should be FF

Re: ffs2

2014-03-16 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 09:53:29PM +0100, carsten.ku...@arcor.de wrote: > > i just want to know how to format a partition in OpenBSD for ffs2 ? > > You could have a look in the newfs(8) manpage for the option "-O". -O 2 > should be FFS2. > But don't use FFS2 for /. OpenBSD can't boot from FFS2.

Re: ffs2

2014-03-16 Thread carsten . kunze
> i just want to know how to format a partition in OpenBSD for ffs2 ? You could have a look in the newfs(8) manpage for the option "-O". -O 2 should be FFS2.

Re: ffs2

2013-03-18 Thread Olivier Cherrier
You could also try this "not so usefull" tool: http://www.symacx.com/data/software/OpenBSD/fstyp.tgz (ports) http://www.symacx.com/data/software/OpenBSD/fstyp-0.1.tar.gz (source) Later, oc On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 07:45:35PM -0500, thelette...@gmail.com wrote: > Sweet, didn't know about du

Re: ffs2

2013-03-17 Thread Brandon Tanner
Sweet, didn't know about dumpfs, exactly what I was looking for. Thanks also, for the confirmation! On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Philip Guenther wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Brandon Tanner > wrote: > > How do I know if I'm using ffs2 on a partition. > > sudo dumpfs /storage |

Re: ffs2

2013-03-17 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Brandon Tanner wrote: > How do I know if I'm using ffs2 on a partition. sudo dumpfs /storage | head -1 ... > However, I think I read that > 2TB volumes automatically use FFS2 when > using newfs, yet mount only shows ffs (is it transparent or something?). Yes, i

Re: FFS2

2008-08-01 Thread jared r r spiegel
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 08:53:24PM -0400, jmc wrote: > --- John Nietzsche [Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 07:19:11PM -0300]: --- > > Dear OpenBSD friends, > > > > how may i format a slice with FFS2? and what to put into /etc/fstab > IIRC from some list traffic, you have to be careful what filesystems you >

Re: FFS2

2008-07-24 Thread jmc
--- John Nietzsche [Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 07:19:11PM -0300]: --- > Dear OpenBSD friends, > > how may i format a slice with FFS2? and what to put into /etc/fstab i think you have to be running >= 4.2 to have FFS2 support. from newfs(8): -O filesystem-format 2Enhanced fast file system

Re: FFS2

2007-05-20 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Sun, 20 May 2007, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: > Having searched through the archives and found a number of cvs entries related > to FFS2, I was wondering if support is to the point where it can actually be > tested or if it is still very much in progress. I noticed that options FFS2 > has been adde