Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 14:26:23 GMT From: Martin Simmons <martin@lispworks.com> To: Mars G Miro <spry@anarchy.in.the.ph> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: growfs only works on GPT partitioning schemes? Message-ID: <201803081426.w28EQNE6003598@higson.cam.lispworks.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFLM3-qVQzYhMnhO%2B%2BpK0Dde1GO59okuNd-p2DPOrhLnONHBJA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Edward Napierala on Thu, 8 Mar 2018 13:54:03 %2B0000) References: <CADRRZEr%2BaggE3MHNK9DA6f1Jq9T=buNqiRy2Z%2B5N7=N%2BR_PAWA@mail.gmail.com> <201802261411.w1QEBRt1002026@higson.cam.lispworks.com> <CANCZdfrSy4N7dXj%2BNRHuCeUj1Fp3xm2_T06BvpCpL3qRsGSS-A@mail.gmail.com> <5A9A4B1E.8070206@anarchy.in.the.ph> <20180303113306.GB2029@brick> <CADRRZErLXt4Mw%2B_dmsF2q=apy_2HXR6UMtF=ur1Pn=6bnCwD5w@mail.gmail.com> <CAFLM3-qVQzYhMnhO%2B%2BpK0Dde1GO59okuNd-p2DPOrhLnONHBJA@mail.gmail.com>
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>>>>> On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 13:54:03 +0000, Edward Napierala said: > > 2018-03-03 15:29 GMT+00:00 Mars G Miro <spry@anarchy.in.the.ph>: > > > On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 7:33 PM, Edward Tomasz Napierała <trasz@freebsd.org > > > wrote: > > > >> On 0303T1513, Mars G. Miro wrote: > >> > On 02/26/18 22:30, Warner Losh wrote: > >> > > > >> > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 7:11 AM, Martin Simmons <martin@lispworks.com > >> > > <mailto: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 > >> > > >> > You guys have any idea how to resize the slice ? > >> > > >> > I have 2 HDs, both have already been increased (in VirtualBox). The BSD > >> > partitioned scheme below doesn't see the newly allocated disk space, > >> > only the GPT one. > >> > > >> > camcontrol reprobe / gpart recover / etc doesn't do anything. > >> > > >> > mars@fbsd11vm1:~ % gpart show > >> > => 0 83886080 ada0 BSD (40G) > >> > 0 4194304 1 freebsd-ufs (2.0G) > >> > 4194304 16777216 2 freebsd-ufs (8.0G) > >> > 20971520 62914559 4 freebsd-ufs (30G) > >> > 83886079 1 - free - (512B) > >> > > >> > => 40 104857520 ada1 GPT (60G) [CORRUPT] > >> > 40 12582912 1 freebsd-swap (6.0G) > >> > 12582952 92274608 2 freebsd-ufs (44G) > >> > >> What does "geom disk list" show? > >> > >> > > > > Supposedly the first drive should already have been 80Gb but: > > > > mars@fbsd11vm1:~ % geom disk list > > ... > > Geom name: ada0 > > Providers: > > 1. Name: ada0 > > Mediasize: 42949672960 (40G) > > Sectorsize: 512 > > Mode: r3w3e6 > > descr: VBOX HARDDISK > > ident: VB1e5e1cab-a4c47c87 > > rotationrate: 0 > > fwsectors: 63 > > fwheads: 16 > > > > Geom name: ada1 > > Providers: > > 1. Name: ada1 > > Mediasize: 64424509440 (60G) > > Sectorsize: 512 > > Mode: r2w2e3 > > descr: VBOX HARDDISK > > ident: VBef5bd266-afbdd2b4 > > rotationrate: 0 > > fwsectors: 63 > > fwheads: 16 > > > > Okay, so this explains why you can't resize the partition: it's not > the partitioning scheme, but the actual device size. > > Does a reboot make "geom disk list" show expected sizes? If not, > what does a "dmesg | grep ada" show? Also, check the size using "vboxmanage showhdinfo" on the host and check that the virtual disk doesn't have any vbox snapshots. __Martin
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