Bug 94625 - [patch] growfs man page -- document "panic: not enough space" and mention gconcat
Summary: [patch] growfs man page -- document "panic: not enough space" and mention gco...
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Books & Articles (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody)
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Reported: 2006-03-17 23:50 UTC by reed
Modified: 2017-11-07 16:52 UTC (History)
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Description reed 2006-03-17 23:50:21 UTC 
Please document "panic: not enough space" in growfs(8) manual so users of
growfs know how many bytes they need to be able to grow.

Also mention gconcat, maybe like:

--- /archive/FreeBSD-current/src/sbin/growfs/growfs.8   2005-01-18 02:09:34.000000000 -0800
+++ /home/reed/growfs.8 2006-03-17 15:41:38.000000000 -0800
@@ -64,7 +64,10 @@
 before running
 .Nm .
 If you are using volumes you must enlarge them by using
-.Xr vinum 8 .
+.Xr gconcat 8
+or
+.Xr vinum 8 ,
+as appropriate.
 The
 .Nm
 utility extends the size of the file system on the specified special file.


I don't know if ccd can "grow" a volume, if so mention ccdconfig(8) also.

How-To-Repeat: Use gconcat to add a /dev/md* memory disk. Then use growfs to grow file system. How do you know how much space is needed for growfs?

(I looked at code, but simplified explanation in man page would be appreciated.)
Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-03-18 01:41:16 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-doc

Over to maintainer(s). 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=94625 
 
Adding to audit trail from misfiled PR docs/119849:
 
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:09:27 -0500
Comment 2 Eugene Grosbein freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-11-06 12:33:01 UTC 
Is this problem still relevant to recent FreeBSD versions - do you still have panics with growfs? If so, please show panic messages.
Comment 3 reed 2017-11-07 15:36:34 UTC 
(In reply to Eugene Grosbein from comment #2)

I don't know if problem still exists. It doesn't look like my suggestions were implemented.  You may close this 11 year old ticket if you wish.
Comment 4 Eugene Grosbein freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-11-07 16:52:12 UTC 
Close at submitter's request. And growfs seems to work fine these days.