Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 07:30:16 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Martin Simmons <martin@lispworks.com> Cc: Mars G Miro <spry@anarchy.in.the.ph>, FreeBSD FS <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: growfs only works on GPT partitioning schemes? Message-ID: <CANCZdfrSy4N7dXj%2BNRHuCeUj1Fp3xm2_T06BvpCpL3qRsGSS-A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201802261411.w1QEBRt1002026@higson.cam.lispworks.com> References: <CADRRZEr%2BaggE3MHNK9DA6f1Jq9T=buNqiRy2Z%2B5N7=N%2BR_PAWA@mail.gmail.com> <201802261411.w1QEBRt1002026@higson.cam.lispworks.com>
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On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 7:11 AM, Martin Simmons <martin@lispworks.com> wrote: > >>>>> 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. > You do. The /etc/rc.d script that does resize on boot does that automatically, but we have no other automation for the process. Warner
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