How to grow a GPT partition size ?

[Olivier Cochard-Labbe]

Thanks for this information Marcel.
It's interesting to know that someone are working on this feature.
One moment, I believed to do a big mistake by choosing GPT in the place of
MBR for creating partition under FreeNAS.

Regards,

Olivier

2007/5/13, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt at mac.com>:
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> On May 13, 2007, at 4:18 AM, Olivier Cochard-Labbe wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm trying a method for increasing the size of a geom raid5 volume (by
> > replacing each disk one by one by bigger disk).
> > Increasing a graid5 volume works great when I'm using directly the
> > volume
> > (for example: /dev/raid5/volumename) without MBR or GPT partition.
> > But I'm using a GPT partition on this graid5 volume... Then how to
> > increase
> > the size of a GPT partition ? (I've read the man page of gpt but I
> > didn't
> > find a solution).
>
> The gpt(8) tool doesn't support changing the size or position
> of an existing partition. I'm working on a replacement for
> gpt(8), so I don't plan to add support to gpt(8) myself.
>
> The replacement tool will not have these features to begin
> with either, because they're not in demand. However, they
> are planned (changing the size sooner than changing the
> position/location).
>
> If time permits, I should have a resize in the next couple
> of weeks.
>
> --
> Marcel Moolenaar
> xcllnt at mac.com
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