Expanding a partition in gpart after increasing the size of an array.

[Adam Vande More]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Joseph Mays <mays at win.net> wrote:

> I have a freebsd box with an LSI Raid controller in it. It had 4
> 3-terabyte drives configured in an 8TB array. I added a 5th drive and built
> that into the array. Of course, the amount of drive space that shows in
> operation in FreeBSD did not change, presumably because I need to resize
> the partition.
>
> I was trying to follow the partition resizing instructions shown here ---
>
>
> http://www.unibia.com/unibianet/freebsd/resize-your-existing-freebsd-root-partitionslice-safely-without-re-installing
>
> but when I do the “gpart show ” I don’t see the free space. What I do see
> is a change in the apparent overall size of the disk and a set of
> parititions that don’t add up to the new size of the disk.
>
> Is there a way to tell gpart that the size of the drive has changed?
>

At what point in this quest will you decide to share the output of gpart
show?



-- 
Adam