From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 11 17:41:51 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8494F61F for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2013 17:41:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feld@FreeBSD.org) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5932129BE for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2013 17:41:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id D89132230B for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2013 12:41:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from web3 ([10.202.2.213]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 11 Nov 2013 12:41:49 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:from:to:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type:subject:date:in-reply-to :references; s=smtpout; bh=4jAkpQhhSuyA6rOjhKmaqoXkJfM=; b=CqMYH vXpIdZsoA/xZa2gmtcatTExIlaqio0TWQovJ/khr2nTw0rDS30gb17eT4cOTqBWK jglkQYGpX3vHe6kV9hr32NWQUkE3/52M9JwgGiJh2FG25m5H0jswrzGRyDFNuEqw YDvmeaJMOpQVL0sty0SMUj1EvX6MGybPzDqH8I= Received: by web3.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix, from userid 99) id E63FD1101A5; Mon, 11 Nov 2013 12:41:47 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1384191707.2967.45983389.2AA17119@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: JqAmtLcLAYCLZbnjnr8pv8pXf3bJLY94TC8iVHupwX79 1384191707 From: Mark Felder To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-d4893488 Subject: Re: Expand partition after raid array increase. Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 11:41:47 -0600 In-Reply-To: <3EAEFD49B4104E3D828386C82B35A1EB@Gantry> References: <3EAEFD49B4104E3D828386C82B35A1EB@Gantry> X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 17:41:51 -0000 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. >=20 > I was trying to follow the partition resizing instructions shown here --- >=20 > http://www.unibia.com/unibianet/freebsd/resize-your-existing-freebsd-root= -partitionslice-safely-without-re-installing >=20 > but when I do the =E2=80=9Cgpart show =E2=80=9D I don=E2=80=99t see the f= ree space. What I do see > is a change in the apparent overall size of the disk and a set of > parititions that don=E2=80=99t add up to the new size of the disk. >=20 > 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?