Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:15:38 -0800 From: Luke Bakken <luke@bowbak.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing Message-ID: <CAKZjE30RSfLneqVEP1qpQNvQu-=J8ky4ipM9Bh7US5QPOz22UA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello everyone - I'm looking for a way to get FreeBSD 8 / 9 to detect that an already existing disk has grown. I have FreeBSD running as a guest within vSphere ESX 5. Here is the output of camcontrol showing how the disks are detected within the OS: [root@QA1HWFBSD83201 ~]# camcontrol inquiry da0 pass0: <VMware Virtual disk 1.0> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device pass0: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit), Command Queueing Enabled In the VM settings I can increase the disk size but I can't seem to find the right command within FreeBSD to force it to detect the new, larger size without a reboot. 'camcontrol rescan all' works great to detect a new drive but doesn't detect a larger disk. Within a Linux distribution like Debian, the following command will detect the larger drive: echo 1 > /sys/class/scsi_device/0:0:0:0/device/rescan I apologize if this has been answered in the archives or online but I just haven't been able to get a definitive answer if this is possible, and how. Thanks so much in advance, Luke
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