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

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Dec 04), Rishi Chopra said:
> Trying to enlarge a partition (/usr) on a slice (da0s1) with plenty of 
> space:
> 
> # fdisk
> 
> The data for partition 1 is:
> sysid 165 (0xa5), (FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
>    start 63, size 1171861362 (572197 Meg), flag 80 (active)
>       beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1
>       end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
> 
> # df -h:
> 
> Filesystem       Size       Used       Avail   Capacity   Mounted on
> /dev/da0s1a     193M      80M      98M      45%      /
> /dev/da0s1d     193M     5.9M    172M      3%        /var
> /dev/da0s1e     1.9G      670M     1.1G       37%      /usr
> 
> But when I try:
> 
> # umount /usr
> # growfs /dev/da0s1e

You need to extend your e slice (with disklabel -e da0s1) first. 
You've got three "container" objects: Fdisk slices, BSD partitions, and
filesystem.  You've grown the slice, but you need to also expand the
partition before growfs can resize the filesystem.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com