1.\" Copyright 2014 John-Mark Gurney 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $FreeBSD$ 26.\" 27.Dd May 3, 2020 28.Dt GROWFS 7 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm growfs 32.Nd start up script to grow the root file-system 33.Sh DESCRIPTION 34The following options in 35.Pa /etc/rc.conf 36control the behavior of 37.Nm : 38.Bl -tag -width ".Va growfs_enable" -offset indent 39.It Va growfs_enable 40.Pq Dq Li NO 41If set to 42.Dq Li YES , 43the first time the machine boots, the root file-system will be automatically 44expanded, if possible, to fill up all available space after it. 45.El 46.Pp 47To expand the root file-system with-out rebooting, run the following command: 48.Dl % /etc/rc.d/growfs onestart 49.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES 50The script requires that 51.Pa awk 52be present and on the path. 53This usually means that 54.Pa /usr 55should be mounted prior to running the script. 56.Sh FILES 57.Pa /etc/rc.conf 58.Sh EXIT STATUS 59.Ex -std 60.Sh HISTORY 61The 62.Nm 63manual page first appeared in 64.Fx 10.1 . 65.Sh SEE ALSO 66.Xr rc.conf 5 67.Sh AUTHORS 68The man page and script were written by 69.An John-Mark Gurney Aq Mt jmg@FreeBSD.org . 70