Re: FreeBSD guest online disk resize

From: Alexandre Biancalana <biancalana_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:16:13 UTC 
On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM Alexandre Biancalana
<biancalana@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM void <void@f-m.fm> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 04:01:05PM -0300, Alexandre Biancalana wrote:
> >
> > >Am I missing a step, or is there a recommended procedure to make
> > >geom_label recognize the resized disk size dynamically on FreeBSD
> > >guests?
> >
> > Maybe try growfs ?
> >
> > growfs(8) for details
>
> as geom doesn't recognize device new size, growfs also don't see the
> new size, the disk original size was 15GB I've resize to 25GB, see
> bellow:
>
> # nvmecontrol devlist
> nvme2: bhyve-NVMe
> nvme2ns1 (25600MB)
>
> # geom disk list
> Geom name: nda2
> Providers:
> 1. Name: nda2
> Mediasize: 16106127360 (15G)
> Sectorsize: 512
> Mode: r1w1e2
> descr: bhyve-NVMe
> lunid: 589cfc206ec60001
> ident: NVME-4-2
> rotationrate: 0
> fwsectors: 0
> fwheads: 0

# growfs /dev/nda2
growfs: requested size 15GB is equal to the current filesystem size 15GB