Growing your filesystem with growfs

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3月 282008
 

— by Will Andrews 19 August 2002

The Story

I needed more disk space on my vinum volume, which I created about 18 months ago using 2 IBM DeskStar 30GXP 30GB ATA100 drives. Originally, I created a RAID 0 (stripe) filesystem on top of these drives using vinum. But now I needed more disk space for various processes that I was running on the machine. So I got a new IBM DeskStar 80GB ATA100 drive.

Just like the FreeBSD diary article on vinum, I had an /etc/vinum.conf. Its contents were: Continue reading »

freebsd动态调整分区大小

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3月 282008
 

FreeBSD 提供了 growfs( 命令。这使得能够实时地调整文件系统的大小， 因而不再受其限制。
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/zh_CN.GB2312/books/handbook/disk-organization.html

growfs 的使用还是受很多限制吧。仔细规划分区的大小，不要把希望寄托在 growfs 上面。

Growing FreeBSD's filesystems with growfs(8)

Introduction

During installation it is important to size filesystems so that we won't be forced to resize them later. However, it often appears with time that one of the partitions is too small. Until today it was impossible to expand the size of a filesystem. FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE comes with a new utility: growfs(8). This program permits us to enlarge, in certains conditions, the size of an existing ufs filesystem. Continue reading »