Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:07:14 -0500 From: "Joseph Mays" <mays@win.net> To: <freebsd-geom@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Expanding a partition in gpart after increasing the size of an array. Message-ID: <690085F62D0F44DBAED44EB2604D948F@Gantry>
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I was originally attaching the results of "gpart show" as a screenshot because I was working through an internet kvm module on a system several states away that was booted in standalone mode. But the mailing list seems to strip off attachments, so I ssh'd into the system in normal operation to get output of "gpart show" that I can cut and paste here.
root@warehouse:/root # gpart show mfid0
=> 34 17578327997 mfid0 GPT (10T) [CORRUPT]
34 128 1 freebsd-boot (64k)
162 1048576000 2 freebsd-ufs (500G)
1048576162 16521363328 4 freebsd-ufs (7.7T)
17569939490 8388540 3 freebsd-swap (4G)
17578328030 1 - free - (512B)
From: Joseph Mays
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 11:47 AM
To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject: Expanding a partition in gpart after increasing the size of an array.
I have a freebsd box with an LSI Raid controller in it. It had 4 3-terabyte drives configured in an 8TB array. I added a 5th drive and built that into the array. Of course, the amount of drive space that shows in operation in FreeBSD did not change, presumably because I need to resize the partition.
I was trying to follow the partition resizing instructions shown here ---
http://www.unibia.com/unibianet/freebsd/resize-your-existing-freebsd-root-partitionslice-safely-without-re-installing
but when I do the “gpart show ” I don’t see the free space. What I do see is a change in the apparent overall size of the disk and a set of parititions that don’t add up to the new size of the disk.
Is there a way to tell gpart that the size of the drive has changed?
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