growfs says 'we are not growing' ?!?!

Rishi Chopra rchopra at cal.berkeley.edu
Thu Dec 4 23:26:25 PST 2003


Problems have been resolved, thanks again for the help =)

-Rishi

Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko wrote:

>On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 14:23:13 -0800
>Rishi Chopra <rchopra at cal.berkeley.edu> probably wrote:
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>>I get:
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>>growfs: we are not growing (1048576 -> 0)
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>>So I took a look at your email, and you said:
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>>"You've grown the slice, but you need to also expand the
>>partition before growfs can resize the filesystem."
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>It wasn't my email.
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>>This is what confuses me.  The slice (da0s1, called partition in your 
>>quote?) is taking up the whole disk.  It is the only slice on the disk, 
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>No, you will need to grow the *partition* using disklabel. What does
>`disklabel -r da0s1' say?
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>>and spans the entire disk.  Any idea why I'm getting the error?
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>>-Rishi
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