growfs on /

2003-12-12 Thread Jeff LaMarche
Hey all... Have FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE, and I've run out of space on the slice / I really want to avoid having to backup and reformat, or doing anything that's super-time-intensive - from reading various posts and blogs related to FreeBSD, it appears to me that I can resolve my issue by using grow

Re: growfs on /

2003-12-12 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 13:08, Jeff LaMarche wrote: > Hey all... > > Have FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE, and I've run out of space on the slice / > > I really want to avoid having to backup and reformat, or doing anything > that's super-time-intensive - from reading various posts and blogs > related to FreeBSD, i

Re: growfs on /

2003-12-13 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 14:02:59 +1030 Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 13:08, Jeff LaMarche wrote: > > Hey all... > > > > Have FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE, and I've run out of space on the slice / > > > > I really want to avoid having to backup and reformat, or doing anyth

Re: growfs on /

2003-12-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hey all... > > Have FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE, and I've run out of space on the slice / > > I really want to avoid having to backup and reformat, or doing anything > that's super-time-intensive - from reading various posts and blogs > related to FreeBSD, it appears to me that I can resolve my iss

growfs on vinum volume

2004-03-28 Thread Ludo Koren
Hi list on 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3, I did: fdisk -BI da2 fdisk -BI da3 and disklabel -e da2s1 disklabel -e da3s1 # /dev/da2s1: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 143363981 16unused0 0 c: 1433639970unused0

Re: growfs on vinum volume

2004-03-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
You've missed out some information. May I assume that you had a valid file system on the 15 GB volume mirror before you started this? > It finished with the following error: > > growfs: bad inode number 1 to ginode > > I have searched the archives, but did not find any ans

Re: growfs on vinum volume

2004-03-29 Thread Lukas Ertl
any answer. Please, > > could you point to me what I did wrong? > > You trusted growfs on 5.2.1 :-) > > growfs is suffering from lack of love, and presumably you had a UFS 2 > file system on the drive. It's only recently been fixed for that, in > 5-CURRENT. Well, t

Re: growfs on vinum volume

2004-03-29 Thread Ludo Koren
1 to ginode >> >> I have searched the archives, but did not find any >> answer. Please, could you point to me what I did wrong? > You trusted growfs on 5.2.1 :-) I did it successfully before on 5.x (I don't remember exactly, about 6 months ago) but not on

Re: growfs on vinum volume

2004-03-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 29 March 2004 at 18:38:20 +0200, Ludo Koren wrote: > > >>> >>> vinum -> l ... >>> D d1State: up /dev/da1s1e A: 0/15452 MB (0%) >>> D rd1 State: up /dev/da1s1h A: 0/1023 MB (0%) > >> You shouldn't have more than one drive per spind

Re: growfs on vinum volume

2004-03-29 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-03-29T21:04:19Z, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday, 29 March 2004 at 18:38:20 +0200, Ludo Koren wrote: >> It has 'historical' reason. I started with vinum, when it was not >> possible to mirror root partition (at least I found just document >> 'Bootstrapping Vi

Re: growfs on vinum volume

2004-03-31 Thread Ludo Koren
>>> What you do now depends on the state of the file system. >>> Hopefully you still have the original contents. In this case, >> Yes, I have original contents. The volume size is 15GB just as >> before. > OK. You've seen le's message. No. Probably, I missed it. lk ___

Re: growfs on vinum volume

2004-03-31 Thread Ludo Koren
>>> It has 'historical' reason. I started with vinum, when it was >>> not possible to mirror root partition (at least I found just >>> document 'Bootstrapping Vinum: A Foundation for Reliable >>> Servers' by R. A. Van Valzah in 2001 or 2002 on >>> www.freebsd.org) >> Ther

growfs on file-backed fs

2004-04-19 Thread Richard P. Williamson
ut nothing wants to allow it to play the way I need. When I replace the mfsroot.gz with mfsroot.flp from the floppy startup images, then it boots. I have, in the past done a growfs on the mfsroot.flp, in order to make it big enough to hold the files I need. But I'd rather just do the comma

vinum and growfs on 5.1R

2003-09-10 Thread Mark McKinstry
I'm trying to concatenate two disk using vinum on FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE and want to make sure I am doing everything correctly. I have two drives, a 30 gig and a 40 gig. I have vinum setup and running on the 40 gig right now. I would like to copy information from the 30 gig to the 40 gig, Then concat

gvinum + growfs on 5.4-STABLE

2005-12-14 Thread Ludo Koren
Hi, is it possible (tested?) to use safely growfs on gvinum mirror volume on FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE ? (I know there was problem on earlier 5.x version with vinum). Thanks, lk PS: I did not search yet, but has anybody step by step docs on replacing a dead drive in gvinum mirror