Re: resize_ffs hangs on needbuf

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20130828045548.GA5092%panix.com@localhost>,
Thor Lancelot Simon  <tls%panix.com@localhost> wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 05:31:33AM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
>> Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>> 
>> [resize_ffs on the vnd device from dom0 hangs] on needbuf]
>> > What is the way around this problem?
>> 
>> resize_ffs appeat to work like a charm from within the domU. I did it in
>> single user with read-only root and just swap activated, and rebooted
>> immediatly upon completion. 
>> 
>> It looks rather counter-intuitive to resize the mounted root but that
>> works. Immediate reboot seems advised since df does not report the new
>> size after resize_ffs completes successfully.
>
>Indeed you may want reboot -n!

And make sure it does not have WAPBL on it.

christos