Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:11:27 GMT From: Martin Simmons <martin@lispworks.com> To: Mars G Miro <spry@anarchy.in.the.ph> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: growfs only works on GPT partitioning schemes? Message-ID: <201802261411.w1QEBRt1002026@higson.cam.lispworks.com> In-Reply-To: <CADRRZEr%2BaggE3MHNK9DA6f1Jq9T=buNqiRy2Z%2B5N7=N%2BR_PAWA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Mars G Miro on Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:55:10 %2B0800) References: <CADRRZEr%2BaggE3MHNK9DA6f1Jq9T=buNqiRy2Z%2B5N7=N%2BR_PAWA@mail.gmail.com>
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>>>>> 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. __Martin
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