Growing UFS beyond 2 TB

[Arne Wörner]

--- Richard Noorlandt <lists.freebsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have now tried this out by making 2 devices on the RAID array, and
> sticking the filesystems directly on /dev/da2 and /dev/da3 worked fine.
> Next, I have grown the /dev/da3 device on the RAID controller to over 2 TB.
> However, growfs refuses to grow. I get the following output:
> 
> leviathan# growfs /dev/da3
> growfs: we are not growing (415143936->25134976)
>
Here r some messages about patching growfs:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=399737+0+archive/2007/freebsd-fs/20070527.freebsd-fs
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=213338+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2007/freebsd-fs/20070520.freebsd-fs
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=219513+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2007/freebsd-fs/20070520.freebsd-fs

There is a patch:
http://masq.tychl.net/growfs.patch
WARNING: It is very untested... Try only if u really backed up ur data...

-Arne


       
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