I put a copy of / in /usr then from the fixit, I mounted /usr as / and ran growfs from there.. the trick is to not do it while / is mounted.
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Archie Cobbs wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: > > most systems follow / with their swap region.. > > > > you can boot from fixit, or picoBSD floppy > > and use disklabel -e to exend the root partition > > then you can use growfs to add the new space to your root fs. > > Hmm.. I tried that and it didn't seem to work. > > The disklabel change was successful, but growfs didn't seem to > expand the root partition any.. df(1) still shows it as 50M. > > I ran growfs after booting single user mode but before mounting > any disks.. perhaps that caused it to not work. > > Since that didn't work, I booted a 4.7-REL fixit floppy and tried > to run growfs from there, but then that growfs core dumped: To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
