growfs

[Michael Conlen]

Sorry for the double post but I found a copy of the actual error...

  growfs: rdfs: seek error: 237231962044550260: Unknown error: 0


On Feb 20, 2005, at 2:40 AM, Michael Conlen wrote:

> On FreeBSD 5.3 I added disks to a disk array. The array contained two 
> 250 GB disks stripped (actually four mirrored and striped but it's all 
> done in hardware). I added two more pairs to the virtual disk, 
> rebooted the machine, rewrote the disklabel for the additional 
> capacity and ran growfs. It would grow the filesystem to almost the 
> end and reported growfs: rdfs: seek error: <some really large number 
> 18 digits long>: unknown error: 0
>
> I ran growfs with progressively smaller -s options, but the same thing 
> happens when it gets near the end of the new size of the file system.
>
> fdisk reports the new size for the disk in sectors on partition 1 and 
> the cylinders, heads and sectors/track appear proper.
>
> the only odd thing I notice is that
>
> nfs2# fdisk -s /dev/da1s1
> /dev/da1s1: 121341 cyl 255 hd 63 sec
> Part        Start        Size Type Flags
>    4:           0       50000 0xa5 0x80
> nfs2# fdisk -s /dev/da1
> /dev/da1: 121342 cyl 255 hd 63 sec
> Part        Start        Size Type Flags
>    1:          63  1949359167 0xa5 0x80
>
>
> notice da1s1 lists part 4 as size 50000 (25 MB). da1 lists the 
> propersize.
>
> disklabel looks right for da1s1
>
> nfs2# disklabel -r /dev/da1s1
> # /dev/da1s1:
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>   c: 1949359167        0    unused        0     0         # "raw" 
> part, don't edit
>   d: 1949359167        0    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28552
>
>
> Now, I had gone through this process when upgrading from one pair to 
> two without a problem. I'm not sure where to start looking for issues 
> and am looking for a pointer of where to start looking or a better 
> idea of what info I need to debug this. Does anyone see something 
> completely out of whack?
>
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