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Date:      Thu, 16 Oct 2014 01:17:04 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To:        =?utf-8?Q?Edward_Tomasz_Napiera=C5=82a?= <trasz@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Matthew Grooms <mgrooms@shrew.net>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Resizing a zpool as a VMware ESXi guest ...
Message-ID:  <DE8844AA-7DC3-44C9-BEF4-A45DFD0A966A@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20141016081016.GA4670@brick.home>
References:  <543841B8.4070007@shrew.net> <20141016081016.GA4670@brick.home>

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> On Oct 16, 2014, at 1:10, Edward Tomasz Napiera=C5=82a <trasz@FreeBSD.org>=
 wrote:

> "camcontrol rescan" does not force fetching the updated disk size.
> AFAIK there is no way to do that.  However, this should happen
> automatically, if the "other side" properly sends proper Unit Attention
> after resizing.  No idea why this doesn't happen with VMWare.
> Reboot obviously clears things up.
>=20
> [..]

Is open-vm-tools installed?

I ask because if I don't have it installed and the kernel modules loaded, VM=
ware doesn't notify the guest OS of disks being added/removed.

Also, what disk controller are you using?

Cheers.=



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