Re: growfs and soft updates
Teemu Korhonen wrote: I'm merging my ext2-partition with my /usr by shrinking ext2 and doing growfs on the free space. I did it with soft updates enabled and it seemed to work until I tried to use /usr which resulted in kernel panic (ffs_valloc: dup alloc). After plenty of 'fcsk -y' I got it fixed while losing few random files. :( The errors were mostly related to soft updates. Should soft updates be disabled before using growfs? False alarm. It's all the same with soft updates disabled.. I guess growfs needs some work. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: growfs and soft updates
(ffs_valloc: dup alloc). After plenty of 'fcsk -y' I got it fixed while losing few random files. :( The errors were mostly related to soft updates. Should soft updates be disabled before using growfs? False alarm. It's all the same with soft updates disabled.. I guess growfs needs some work. ALWAYS fsck after growfs. growfs is crappy at least, zero out the new space before growfs, but just if you can - simply backup data somewhere and use newfs. growfs is for people that like challenges ;) i have to use it growing 800GB filesystem to 1400GB, finally (after patching it a bit) i did it, but root directory was destroyed (no idea why). all subdirs appeared in lost+found so it wasn't a big problem then+i've got zero sized file in lost+found that i was unable to delete until i took off all strange flash with chflags. but i did it ONLY because i had no way to back it up. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: growfs and soft updates
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:48:44 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: growfs is for people that like challenges ;) i have to use it growing 800GB filesystem to 1400GB, finally (after patching it a bit) i did it, but root directory was destroyed (no idea why). all subdirs appeared in lost+found so it wasn't a big problem then+i've got zero sized file in lost+found that i was unable to delete until i took off all strange flash with chflags. but i did it ONLY because i had no way to back it up. Personally I don't think it's worth the risk, unless the data is disposable like a squid cache. What I normally do is create a new partition and symlink things into it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: growfs and soft updates
problem then+i've got zero sized file in lost+found that i was unable to delete until i took off all strange flash with chflags. but i did it ONLY because i had no way to back it up. Personally I don't think it's worth the risk, unless the data is disposable like a squid cache. What I normally do is create a new partition and symlink things into it. it was network users shared directory for movies music etc. i already told them that i will probably remove it unless they will back it up. so i don't have to worry in case growfs would screw it up completely. anyway where to send patches? i patched it to support sector size 512 bytes (i have geli with 4k sectors). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
