[gvinum] add a disk in concat mode

Eric Anderson anderson at centtech.com
Thu Jun 8 21:54:09 UTC 2006


Gorgonite wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I run on FreeBSD v6.1
> I have a disk with 300Go (/dev/ad0) in concat mode with gvinum (myvol.p0)
> I would like to add a disk of 200Go (/dev/ad2) on this volume, but without
> erasing my previous data (ad0)
> 
> I executed this script
> 
> Code:
> #! /bin/sh dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad2 count=2 disklabel /dev/ad2 |
> disklabel -B -R -r ad2 /dev/stdin newsfs /dev/ad2c gvinum create gvinum.conf
> 
> 
> with this gvinum.conf
> 
> Code:
> drive b device /dev/ad2c plex name myvol.p1 org concat vol myvol sd length
> 188358m drive b
> 
> 
> 
> it seems to be okay for gvinum... and I wanted to update my "partition"
> 
> Code:
> growfs -S "483g" /dev/gvinum/myvol
> 
> 
> 
> but it failed with "grow is not growing..."
> 
> 
> Can anyone help me, please ?
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> ps: sorry for my bad english :'(


Did you unmount the filesystem?

Eric



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