On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 2:21 AM, Ted Unangst <ted.unan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Aaron Stellman <openbsd-m...@x96.org> wrote: >> Before I screw up my filesystem, I would like to see if it's safe to >> proceed. I have a 1TB FFS2 partition, which I'm about to grow to ~1.5TB > >> Looks quite suspicious to me -- please comment. > > even if it worked, you won't be able to run fsck after the fact.
could you please be more informative? won't it work because of FFS2 or because of 1.5TB? it seems that the man page for growfs(8) doesn't say a word about FFS2, although it contains a few don't. also, growfs(8) could abort on the filesystem that is obviously not suitable to be grown.
