From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 14 13:48:31 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8948316A402 for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 13:48:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cochard@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.236]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 339F213C4AD for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 13:48:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cochard@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s1so1882562nze for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 06:48:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=Ogbr7ftPTE4Xt9ugH9XZqvPrfhmzZw2Zc4Okuxw2fynoEnU3ODiLDo8pTISdcnRaljzgbGJ0kqsYNhb+xdFCHklgLph8Wv4o0TU278OHFKRcw6r8WdUIFO3N4gh85PiZTu8km2Gy1jE0CG7xhDMTXl4MizYoPrfSfsrhldzh10k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=DScUNJP0SejiBI0w7v6rpSqX5pBt0H9ZfR9kDNq5Tt0ZfWIQ7jA/0pqPTECVFOavJL1nbzK4+KhiR4URc7JCV2zVa97jZyWW0QgrkNPseJikEvqE13WTfoAWJ58FJAaudtVLgcnHnzNAmuHKVk1V6dYGTUIuGMXjdbZV4XlDC64= Received: by 10.115.106.7 with SMTP id i7mr1002748wam.1179150509993; Mon, 14 May 2007 06:48:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.78.19 with HTTP; Mon, 14 May 2007 06:48:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3131aa530705140648p3a128d2bm62035bb4b95fbc90@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 15:48:29 +0200 From: "Olivier Cochard-Labbe" Sender: cochard@gmail.com To: "Marcel Moolenaar" In-Reply-To: <30A8E689-CFD1-4DDA-9E81-18F41082E863@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <3131aa530705130418h301f1832j313f5267c43e98f5@mail.gmail.com> <30A8E689-CFD1-4DDA-9E81-18F41082E863@mac.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: e41fa21d655d5a39 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to grow a GPT partition size ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 13:48:31 -0000 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 : > > > 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 > > >