GROWFS(8) OpenBSD System Manager's Manual GROWFS(8)NAMEgrowfs - grow size of an existing ffs file system
SYNOPSISgrowfs [-Nqy] [-s size] special
DESCRIPTION
The growfs utility extends the newfs(8) program. Before starting growfs,
the partition must be set to a larger size using disklabel(8). The
growfs utility extends the size of the file system on the specified
special file.
Currently growfs 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 newfs(8) options
cannot be changed by growfs. In fact, you can only increase the size of
the file system. Use tunefs(8) for other changes.
The following options are available:
-N Test mode. Causes the new file system parameters to be
printed out without actually enlarging the file system.
-q Operate in quiet mode. With this option, growfs will not
print extraneous information like superblock backups.
-s size Determines the size of the file system after enlarging in
sectors. This value defaults to the size of the raw partition
specified in special (in other words, growfs will enlarge the
file system to the size of the entire partition).
-y Expert mode. Usually growfs will ask you if you have taken a
backup of your data and will test whether special is currently
mounted. The -y flag suppresses this, so use this option with
great care!
SEE ALSOdisklabel(8), dumpfs(8), fdisk(8), fsck(8), newfs(8), tunefs(8)HISTORY
The growfs utility first appeared in FreeBSD 4.4.
AUTHORS
Christoph Herrmann <chm@FreeBSD.org>
Thomas-Henning von Kamptz <tomsoft@FreeBSD.org>
The GROWFS team <growfs@Tomsoft.COM>
BUGS
Filesystems must be checked with fsck(8) after enlarging.
OpenBSD 4.9 November 28, 2008 OpenBSD 4.9
