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Date:      Thu, 8 Mar 2018 13:54:03 +0000
From:      Edward Napierala <trasz@freebsd.org>
To:        Mars G Miro <spry@anarchy.in.the.ph>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Martin Simmons <martin@lispworks.com>,  FreeBSD FS <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: growfs only works on GPT partitioning schemes?
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2018-03-03 15:29 GMT+00:00 Mars G Miro <spry@anarchy.in.the.ph>:

> On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 7:33 PM, Edward Tomasz Napiera=C5=82a <trasz@freeb=
sd.org
> > wrote:
>
>> On 0303T1513, Mars G. Miro wrote:
>> > On 02/26/18 22:30, Warner Losh wrote:
>> > >
>> > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 7:11 AM, Martin Simmons <martin@lispworks.co=
m
>> > > <mailto:martin@lispworks.com>> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >     >>>>> On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:55:10 +0800, Mars G Miro said:
>> > >     >
>> > >     >    It seems that growfs only works on GPT partitioned schemes =
?
>> > >     >
>> > >     >    When I first installed my FreeBSD, I unfortunately chose BS=
D
>> during the
>> > >     > FS creation. Now that I ran out of space, I wanted to increase
>> the
>> > >     > filesystem size. Successfully did so in Virtualbox but after
>> rebooting, the
>> > >     > HD doesn't see the new allocated space. It has another virtual
>> HD, one
>> > >     > created with GPT and I was able to increase it via growfs.
>> > >
>> > >     For the BSD scheme, I think you also have to resize the slice
>> (i.e.
>> > >     the MBR
>> > >     entry) and then resize the BSD partition within the slice.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > You do. The /etc/rc.d script that does resize on boot does that
>> > > automatically, but we have no other automation for the process.
>> > >
>> > > Warner
>> >
>> > You guys have any idea how to resize the slice ?
>> >
>> > I have 2 HDs, both have already been increased (in VirtualBox). The BS=
D
>> > partitioned scheme below doesn't see the newly allocated disk space,
>> > only the GPT one.
>> >
>> > camcontrol reprobe / gpart recover / etc doesn't do anything.
>> >
>> > mars@fbsd11vm1:~ % gpart  show
>> > =3D>       0  83886080  ada0  BSD  (40G)
>> >          0   4194304     1  freebsd-ufs  (2.0G)
>> >    4194304  16777216     2  freebsd-ufs  (8.0G)
>> >   20971520  62914559     4  freebsd-ufs  (30G)
>> >   83886079         1        - free -  (512B)
>> >
>> > =3D>       40  104857520  ada1  GPT  (60G) [CORRUPT]
>> >          40   12582912     1  freebsd-swap  (6.0G)
>> >    12582952   92274608     2  freebsd-ufs  (44G)
>>
>> What does "geom disk list" show?
>>
>>
>
> Supposedly the first drive should already have been 80Gb but:
>
> mars@fbsd11vm1:~ % geom disk list
> ...
> Geom name: ada0
> Providers:
> 1. Name: ada0
>    Mediasize: 42949672960 (40G)
>    Sectorsize: 512
>    Mode: r3w3e6
>    descr: VBOX HARDDISK
>    ident: VB1e5e1cab-a4c47c87
>    rotationrate: 0
>    fwsectors: 63
>    fwheads: 16
>
> Geom name: ada1
> Providers:
> 1. Name: ada1
>    Mediasize: 64424509440 (60G)
>    Sectorsize: 512
>    Mode: r2w2e3
>    descr: VBOX HARDDISK
>    ident: VBef5bd266-afbdd2b4
>    rotationrate: 0
>    fwsectors: 63
>    fwheads: 16
>

Okay, so this explains why you can't resize the partition: it's not
the partitioning scheme, but the actual device size.

Does a reboot make "geom disk list" show expected sizes? If not,
what does a "dmesg | grep ada" show?



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