On 11/11/11 04:34, carlopmart wrote: > On 11/11/2011 03:48 AM, Nick Holland wrote: [bla bla bla]
> Thanks Nick. growfs suites my needs. Is this the correct procedure?? > > http://wiki.arpnetworks.com/wiki/ResizeOpenBSDRootFilesystem "the correct procedure" is a big phrase. :) It's _A_ procedure, and for some people, it may be right. I'd not bet that the ramdisk file system on bsd.rd has the space available to pull over growfs on all platforms. And I don't like the step-by-step without the discussion of why. Your needs will probably be different from the author's, or mine, so make sure you understand, and if it is important, practice on a non-critical machine first. growfs has to be used on an idle file system. If your goal is to enlarge root (or /usr, or /var or ...), you need to be running in a strange mode -- single user with / unmounted, bsd.rd, booted from another file system, etc. Personally, I'd boot off my live USB disk, but since growfs is a static binary and based closely on newfs, it will probably run just fine from bsd.rd, so one could potentially boot from bsd.rd, mount / somewhere, mount /tmp (or whatever) elsewhere, save a copy of growfs to this other file system, unmount /, then do your twiddling. Exactly how you do this will depend on your environment. but again...when messing with your file systems, errors can be really bad, so rather than asking my or google's advice...build up a test machine, and practice on that before you do it on a production box. Nick.
