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Subject: Re: Expanding a zpool inside a VM
From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>
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On Dec 16, 2014, at 10:44 AM, javocado <javocado@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a FreeBSD 10.0 installation in a vmware guest and I'd like to =
expand
> the zpool. Obviously it's very simple to expand the disk size within
> vmware, but I just want to make sure this command - which _appears_ to =
work
> fine - is really safe and sane to properly expand the pool to the full =
size
> of the the new, larger disk:
>=20
> zpool online -e pool /dev/da1

I've been using exactly that command for a long time to extend zpools in =
virtual machines with the expected results.