From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 03:41:16 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C3DB1065670 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:41:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darren@thebomb.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59AB38FC08 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:41:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darren@thebomb.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so11969914rvf.43 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:41:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.101.16 with SMTP id d16mr4226552rvm.277.1231731675934; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:41:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.0.1.210? (208-106-20-128.dsl.static.sonic.net [208.106.20.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f42sm5750718rvb.5.2009.01.11.19.41.14 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:41:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <496ABBD5.7000206@thebomb.com> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:41:09 -0800 From: Darren David Organization: Stimulant User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: How to grow partition size on RAID volume? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:41:16 -0000 Hi all- I need some help figuring out how to expand the existing partition on my RAID volume to take advantage of a new disk I just added -- without newfs'ing the volume and starting from scratch. I added a 4th 750GB disk to my existing 1.5TB 3ware RAID5 volume, in an attempt to bring my total capacity up to ~2.25TB (4x750GB RAID5). I successfully used the 3ware 'tw-cli' utility to perform "Online Capacity Expansion." The controller migrated the existing data across all 4 disks, and it now reports a total volume capacity of 2095.44GB. Now, I'm not quite sure how to get FreeBSD to recognize the extra space. I know that in order to use growfs, I first have to use disklabel to increase the partition size. However, disklabel doesn't like this big RAID volume: # disklabel /dev/da0 disklabel: disks with more than 2^32-1 sectors are not supported and the existing partition doesn't seem to have a label: # disklabel /dev/da0s1 disklabel: /dev/da0s1: no valid label found I'm unsure how to proceed here. CAn anyone shed some light as to how I might proceed? Thanks in advance for any and all help, Darren David