Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 11:41:47 -0600 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Expand partition after raid array increase. Message-ID: <1384191707.2967.45983389.2AA17119@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <3EAEFD49B4104E3D828386C82B35A1EB@Gantry> References: <3EAEFD49B4104E3D828386C82B35A1EB@Gantry>
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On Mon, Nov 11, 2013, at 11:39, Joseph Mays wrote: > 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. > > How should I be going about increasing the size of the partition? > Can you provide the output of your "gpart show" so we can see what your current scheme looks like?
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