Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:27:24 -0800 From: Devin Teske <devin.teske@fisglobal.com> To: Luke Bakken <luke@bowbak.org> Cc: Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing Message-ID: <2C81BCF0-1B29-41BD-B03D-35A35A01617A@fisglobal.com> In-Reply-To: <CAKZjE32SMCgCa7NYqtgmSTntDMfwds2XccdQUz_SmXhJL9Zbsw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAKZjE30RSfLneqVEP1qpQNvQu-=J8ky4ipM9Bh7US5QPOz22UA@mail.gmail.com> <3EB59092-BFE2-4C5F-85A2-E225FBC3F5D9@fisglobal.com> <CAKZjE32SMCgCa7NYqtgmSTntDMfwds2XccdQUz_SmXhJL9Zbsw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Dec 18, 2012, at 6:35 AM, Luke Bakken wrote: >> You'll of course need to boot from another medium to do this. >>=20 >=20 > That's my main question - can a larger disk be detected *without* a > reboot. On FreeBSD instances running within VMWare I have been able to > add new disks without a reboot but, as I described below, have not > found a way to get the operating system to detect a larger *existing* > disk without a reboot. VMWare allows you to resize a disk on the fly. > Obviously I'm only interested in the "grow the disk" scenario :-) >=20 > I'm beginning to think a reboot is necessary, which is surprising! Live resize (without reboot even) is something being worked on for the futu= re 10.x series. --=20 Devin >=20 >> On Dec 17, 2012, at 4:15 PM, Luke Bakken wrote: >>=20 >> Hello everyone - >>=20 >> I'm looking for a way to get FreeBSD 8 / 9 to detect that an already >> existing disk has grown. I have FreeBSD running as a guest within >> vSphere ESX 5. Here is the output of camcontrol showing how the disks >> are detected within the OS: >>=20 >> [root@QA1HWFBSD83201 ~]# camcontrol inquiry da0 >> pass0: <VMware Virtual disk 1.0> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device >> pass0: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit), Command >> Queueing Enabled >>=20 >> In the VM settings I can increase the disk size but I can't seem to >> find the right command within FreeBSD to force it to detect the new, >> larger size without a reboot. 'camcontrol rescan all' works great to >> detect a new drive but doesn't detect a larger disk. Within a Linux >> distribution like Debian, the following command will detect the larger >> drive: >>=20 >> echo 1 > /sys/class/scsi_device/0:0:0:0/device/rescan >>=20 >> I apologize if this has been answered in the archives or online but I >> just haven't been able to get a definitive answer if this is possible, >> and how. >>=20 >> Thanks so much in advance, >> Luke >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.= org" >>=20 >>=20 >> _____________ >> The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or >> confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete = the >> message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the mess= age >> in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, ple= ase >> be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving >> and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. _____________ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidentia= l. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message an= d all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any ma= nner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware= that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and revie= w by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you.
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