Re: growfs(8) -- FFS2 question

2008-12-24 Thread Pedro Martelletto
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 01:06:17AM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: As a general matter, I'm a bit of a downer on ffs2 because I think it's the wrong solution. FFS was (and is) great for its problem domain, but outside the comfort zone it's not so hot. there's always the possibility of trying to

Re: growfs(8) -- FFS2 question

2008-12-24 Thread Ted Unangst
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Pedro Martelletto pe...@ambientworks.net wrote: On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 01:06:17AM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: As a general matter, I'm a bit of a downer on ffs2 because I think it's the wrong solution. FFS was (and is) great for its problem domain, but outside

growfs(8) -- FFS2 question

2008-12-23 Thread Aaron Stellman
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 original disklabel: a: 2097157167 63 4.2BSD 8192 655361 ^ c: 39070310400 unused 0

Re: growfs(8) -- FFS2 question

2008-12-23 Thread Ted Unangst
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

Re: growfs(8) -- FFS2 question

2008-12-23 Thread Denis Doroshenko
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

Re: growfs(8) -- FFS2 question

2008-12-23 Thread Ted Unangst
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Denis Doroshenko denis.doroshe...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: growfs(8) -- FFS2 question

2008-12-23 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 01:06:17AM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Denis Doroshenko denis.doroshe...@gmail.com wrote: 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