Bruce Evans wrote: > > So in summary my recommendation is to add a big warning to the > > growfs(1) man page that is should not be run on the root partition, > > even if you have booted single-user mode and haven't mounted / yet. > > I.e., to grow a root partition, you must boot from a different partition. > > Er, it should be obvious that growfs can't reasonably work on the mounted > partitions. growfs.1 doesn't exist, but growfs.8 already has the warning > in a general form: > > .... Currently growfs can only enlarge unmounted file systems. Do not > try enlarging a mounted file system, your system may panic and you will > not be able to use the file system any longer...
Well, I suspected that it might not work... but I would disagree that it was *obvious* that it would not work. This was before "mount" had been run, so / was supposedly mounted (?) read-only. In any case, when you're talking about the danger of destroying a filesystem it probably wouldn't hurt to have a little extra clarity in the documentation. Or better yet, should the kernel prevent raw writes to the / partition? Guess that would prevent fsck from working though. -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
