Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 15:48:29 +0200 From: "Olivier Cochard-Labbe" <olivier@freenas.org> To: "Marcel Moolenaar" <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to grow a GPT partition size ? Message-ID: <3131aa530705140648p3a128d2bm62035bb4b95fbc90@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <30A8E689-CFD1-4DDA-9E81-18F41082E863@mac.com> References: <3131aa530705130418h301f1832j313f5267c43e98f5@mail.gmail.com> <30A8E689-CFD1-4DDA-9E81-18F41082E863@mac.com>
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Thanks for this information Marcel. It's interesting to know that someone are working on this feature. One moment, I believed to do a big mistake by choosing GPT in the place of MBR for creating partition under FreeNAS. Regards, Olivier 2007/5/13, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>: > > > On May 13, 2007, at 4:18 AM, Olivier Cochard-Labbe wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying a method for increasing the size of a geom raid5 volume (by > > replacing each disk one by one by bigger disk). > > Increasing a graid5 volume works great when I'm using directly the > > volume > > (for example: /dev/raid5/volumename) without MBR or GPT partition. > > But I'm using a GPT partition on this graid5 volume... Then how to > > increase > > the size of a GPT partition ? (I've read the man page of gpt but I > > didn't > > find a solution). > > The gpt(8) tool doesn't support changing the size or position > of an existing partition. I'm working on a replacement for > gpt(8), so I don't plan to add support to gpt(8) myself. > > The replacement tool will not have these features to begin > with either, because they're not in demand. However, they > are planned (changing the size sooner than changing the > position/location). > > If time permits, I should have a resize in the next couple > of weeks. > > -- > Marcel Moolenaar > xcllnt@mac.com > > >
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