freebsd-skq/share/man/man7/growfs.7
John-Mark Gurney 7bd12696d7 add an rc.d script to automatically grow the specified FS... It has
been tested on both MBR and GPT...  It won't be enabled until you add
growfs_enable="YES" and will only run on first boot..
2014-11-02 00:11:25 +00:00

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.Dd November 1, 2014
.Dt GROWFS 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm growfs
.Nd start up script to grow the root file-system.
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The following options in
.Pa /etc/rc.conf
control the behavior of
.Nm :
.Bl -tag -width ".Va growfs_enable" -offset indent
.It Va growfs_enable
.Pq Dq Li NO
If set to
.Dq Li YES ,
the first time the machine boots, the root file-system will be automatically
expanded, if possible, to fill up all available space after it.
.El
.Pp
To expand the root file-system with-out rebooting, run the following command:
.Dl % /etc/rc.d/growfs onestart
.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
The script requires that
.Pa awk
be present and on the path.
This usually means that
.Pa /usr
should be mounted prior to running the script.
.Sh FILES
.Pa /etc/rc.conf
.Sh EXIT STATUS
.Ex -std
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr rc.conf 5
.Sh AUTHORS
The man page and script were written by
.An John-Mark Gurney Aq Mt jmg@FreeBSD.org .