Growing UFS beyond 2 TB

[Arne Wörner]

--- Nick Gustas <freebsd-fs at tychl.net> wrote:
> Anyhow, I made the three changes you mentioned, and growfs still 
> compiles clean,
>
Does that mean, that there r no warnings?

> and runs with proper display, but running fsck -y on the 
> grown file system scrolls for a long time with tons of errors and 
> eventually bombs out asking me to run it again. running it again doesn't 
> help.
>
Did u try to run the original R6.2 growfs on a smaller fs? I have heard, that
growfs has a general malfunction, so that it produces things, that fsck finds
funny... If u repeat fsck often, those warnings will disapear... :-))

> I've updated
> 
> http://masq.tychl.net/growfs.patch
> 
> with the changes you suggested.
> 
> Keep in mind I'm no C programmer, but I can follow direction and would 
> love to see growfs 2+TB clean :)
>
Yup - its ok... I dont know so much about UFS, too... I was just wondering a
bit... :-)

-Arne


       
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