sbin/growfs/growfs.8

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.\" $TSHeader: src/sbin/growfs/growfs.8,v 1.3 2000/12/12 19:31:00 tomsoft Exp $
.\" $FreeBSD: src/sbin/growfs/growfs.8,v 1.19 2003/06/17 19:21:43 brueffer Exp $
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.Dd September 8, 2000
.Dt GROWFS 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm growfs
.Nd grow size of an existing ffs file system
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl Ny
.Op Fl s Ar size
.Ar special
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility extends the
.Xr newfs 8
program.
Before starting
.Nm
the slice must be labeled to a bigger size using
.Xr disklabel 8 .
If you wish to grow a file system beyond the boundary of
the partition it resides in, you must re-size the partition using
.Xr fdisk 8
before running
.Nm .
The
.Nm
utility extends the size of the file system on the specified special file.
.Pp
Currently
.Nm
can only enlarge unmounted file systems.
Do not try enlarging a mounted file system \- your system may panic and you will
not be able to use the file system any longer.
Most of the
.Xr newfs 8
options cannot be changed by
.Nm
\&.
In fact, you can only increase the size of the file system.
Use
.Xr tunefs 8
for other changes.
.Pp
The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width "-s sizeXX"
.It Fl N
Test mode.
Causes the new file system parameters to be printed out without actually
enlarging the file system.
.It Fl s Ar size
Determines the
.Ar size
of the file system after enlarging in sectors.
This value defaults to the size of the raw partition specified in
.Ar special
(in other words,
.Nm
will enlarge the file system to the size of the entire partition).
.It Fl y
Expert mode.
Usually
.Nm
will ask you if you have taken a backup of your data and will test
whether
.Ar special
is currently mounted.
The
.Fl y
flag suppresses this,
so use this option with great care!
.El
.Sh EXAMPLES
.Dl growfs -s 4194304 /dev/rwd0f
.Pp
will enlarge
.Pa /dev/rwd0f
up to 2GB if there is enough space in
.Pa /dev/rwd0f .
.Sh BUGS
The
.Nm
utility works starting with
.Fx
3.x.
There may be cases on
.Fx
3.x only, when
.Nm
does not recognize properly whether or not the file system is mounted and
exits with an error message ("nothing done").
Then please use
.Nm
.Fl y
if you are sure that the file system is not mounted.
The
.Nm
utility has not yet been tested on
.Ox
at all, and not much on
.Mx .
They behave like
.Fx
3.x in the respect shown above.
It is also recommended to always use
.Xr fsck 8
before and after enlarging (just to be on the safe side).
.Pp
For enlarging beyond certain limits, it is essential to have some free blocks
available in the first cylinder group.
If that space is not available in the first cylinder group, a critical data
structure has to be relocated into one of the new available cylinder groups.
On
.Fx
3.x this will cause problems with
.Xr fsck 8
afterwards.
So
.Xr fsck 8
needs to be patched if you want to use
.Nm
for
.Fx
3.x.
This patch is already integrated in
.Fx
starting with
.Fx 4.4 .
To avoid an unexpected relocation of that structure it is possible to use
.Nm ffsinfo
.Fl g Ar 0
on the first cylinder group to verify that
.Em nbfree
in the CYLINDER SUMMARY (internal cs) of the CYLINDER GROUP
.Em cgr0
has enough blocks.
As a rule of thumb for default file system parameters one block is needed for
every 2 GB of total file system size.
.Pp
Normally
.Nm
writes this critical structure to disk and reads it again later for doing more
updates.
This read operation will provide unexpected data when using
.Fl N .
Therefore, this part cannot really be simulated and will be skipped in test
mode.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr disklabel 8 ,
.Xr dumpfs 8 ,
.Xr fdisk 8 ,
.Xr ffsinfo 8 ,
.Xr fsck 8 ,
.Xr newfs 8 ,
.Xr tunefs 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
utility first appeared in
.Fx 4.4 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Christoph Herrmann Aq chm@FreeBSD.org
.An Thomas-Henning von Kamptz Aq tomsoft@FreeBSD.org
.An The GROWFS team Aq growfs@Tomsoft.COM
.Sh BUGS
It is recommended to always use
.Xr fsck 8
after enlarging
.Pq just to be on the safe side .