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From: Martin Simmons <martin@lispworks.com>
To: Mars G Miro <spry@anarchy.in.the.ph>
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 (message from Mars G Miro on Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:55:10 +0800)
Subject: Re: growfs only works on GPT partitioning schemes?
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>>>>> 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 BSD 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.

__Martin