From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 18 01:27:36 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20125F7A for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 01:27:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com) Received: from mx1.fisglobal.com (mx1.fisglobal.com [199.200.24.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D30DD8FC12 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 01:27:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.fisglobal.com ([10.132.206.31]) by ltcfislmsgpa02.fnfis.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id qBI1RXDC030124 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:27:33 -0600 Received: from [10.0.0.102] (10.14.152.61) by smtp.fisglobal.com (10.132.206.31) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.2.309.2; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:27:32 -0600 Subject: Re: FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing MIME-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1283) From: Devin Teske In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:27:31 -0800 Message-ID: <3EB59092-BFE2-4C5F-85A2-E225FBC3F5D9@fisglobal.com> References: To: Luke Bakken X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1283) X-Originating-IP: [10.14.152.61] X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.9.8327, 1.0.431, 0.0.0000 definitions=2012-12-18_01:2012-12-17,2012-12-18,1970-01-01 signatures=0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: Devin Teske List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 01:27:36 -0000 It can be done but it's not easy and not pretty. You'll have to rewrite the partition scheme to grow *only* the last partiti= on and then use growfs on the last partition to zero the new inodes within = its newly defined range. You'll of course need to boot from another medium to do this. I usually use DruidBSD for this: DruidBSD-1.0b1.iso (a tiny 23.5MB ISO that you can write to thumb disk with dd or burn to cd; = either works fine) Boot from it and use the tools like "disklabel -e /dev/yourdisk" But=85 be extremely careful and do your mathematics! I know this isn't a complete step-by-step guide, but I wanted to get the an= swer out there that this is possible and it's a known quantity, but it can = be dangerous if you get the math wrong when editing the disklabel positions= , for example. If you can get that part right, the rest is easy (growfs). --=20 Devin On Dec 17, 2012, at 4:15 PM, Luke Bakken wrote: > Hello everyone - >=20 > 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: >=20 > [root@QA1HWFBSD83201 ~]# camcontrol inquiry da0 > pass0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > pass0: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit), Command > Queueing Enabled >=20 > 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: >=20 > echo 1 > /sys/class/scsi_device/0:0:0:0/device/rescan >=20 > 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. >=20 > Thanks so much in advance, > Luke > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" _____________ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidentia= l. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message an= d all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any ma= nner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware= that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and revie= w by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you.