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author | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2003-07-28 22:29:00 +0000 |
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committer | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2003-07-28 22:29:00 +0000 |
commit | d079af4331107f7f0eaa1214612cb65d4aad1199 (patch) | |
tree | 9656aeffc5e9fe05d96ecd3c855ae2624474b741 /sbin/growfs/growfs.8 | |
parent | 3f6d7b8f803adc6d3c7938fb57a0f042719c678e (diff) |
tweak;
ok tedu@
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/growfs/growfs.8')
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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/growfs/growfs.8 b/sbin/growfs/growfs.8 index 9405d2653f9..e1d5b302626 100644 --- a/sbin/growfs/growfs.8 +++ b/sbin/growfs/growfs.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: growfs.8,v 1.1 2003/07/28 21:09:28 tedu Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: growfs.8,v 1.2 2003/07/28 22:28:59 jmc Exp $ .\" Copyright (c) 2000 Christoph Herrmann, Thomas-Henning von Kamptz .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1989, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. .\" All rights reserved. @@ -63,19 +63,20 @@ If you wish to grow a file system beyond the boundary of the slice it resides in, you must re-size the slice using .Xr fdisk 8 before running -.Nm . +.Nm growfs . 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 +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 . +.Nm growfs . In fact, you can only increase the size of the file system. Use .Xr tunefs 8 @@ -84,11 +85,11 @@ for other changes. The following options are available: .Bl -tag -width indent .It Fl N -.Dq Test mode . +Test mode. Causes the new file system parameters to be printed out without actually enlarging the file system. .It Fl y -.Dq Expert mode . +Expert mode. Usually .Nm will ask you if you took a backup of your data before and will do some tests @@ -108,11 +109,6 @@ This value defaults to the size of the raw partition specified in .Nm will enlarge the file system to the size of the entire partition). .El -.Sh BUGS -It is recommended to always use -.Xr fsck 8 -after enlarging (just to be on the safe side). -.Pp .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr disklabel 8 , .Xr dumpfs 8 , @@ -120,12 +116,17 @@ after enlarging (just to be on the safe side). .Xr fsck 8 , .Xr newfs 8 , .Xr tunefs 8 -.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 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 . |