I received two quick and fairly definitive answers to my question below
from:
John Warren <JHWARREN_at_ESCOCORP.com> and
Paul Grant <paul.grant_at_kscl.com>
who both concur that I must use newfs to get the root partition to use
all 128MB and that newfs will destroy the contents of the disk so that
I will need to restore from backup (which I did before changing the
disklabel).
Thanks to John and Paul and to anyone else with messages on the way.
Peter
Peter Stern
Chemical Physics Department
Weizmann Institute of Science
76100 Rehovot, ISRAEL
email: peter_at_wiscpa.weizmann.ac.il
phone: 972-8-9342096
fax: 972-8-9344123
> I am running DU 4.0 on a DEC 3000/800S. I recently doubled the
> memory to 256MB and wanted to increase swap. I thought that I
> would use the opportunity to increase the root partition from
> 64MB to 128MB. The disk has partitions a (/), b (swap) and
> g (AdvFS domain). I used rmvol to get rid of g, booted from
> the CD-ROM, marked a and b unused with disklabel -s, changed
> the partition sizes and offsets, put '4.2BSD' and 'swap' back on
> the disklabel and rebooted. Everything is fine, except that
> df -k / shows root as still only 64MB. Is there anything I
> can do to fix this (e.g. boot from CD, newfs /dev/rrz3a rz28b)
> which won't destroy the information on the root partition?
Received on Fri Sep 26 1997 - 13:01:40 NZST