OCE and GPT

[Andrey V. Elsukov]

On 21.04.2010 13:21, Lister wrote:
> I have a 5TB RAID5 (/dev/da0) on a 3Ware controller supporting OCE. I
> partitioned it into p1, p2 & p3 using gpt on FreeBSD-7.1-RELEAE.
> P3 is 3.5TB and is the one I need to expand by adding another 1TB drive
> to the RAID. It is now 87% full.
>
> Both gpt and gpart don't allow resizing a partition.
> Of course, backing up the RAID to another is not an option.
>
> I'm in a rather desperate situation and I'm willing to do whatever it
> takes. If there's no current software solution, I'm willing to use a hex
> editor to edit the disk directly if someone could advise me of the
> layout of GPT as created by gpt- and gpart if different. I used to do
> this on MBR disks at times of necessity.

I published patch to add resize feature to GEOM PART class some time ago:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-geom/2010-March/003955.html

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WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov