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
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
(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
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
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
