Expanding a zpool inside a VM

[John Nielsen]

On Dec 16, 2014, at 10:44 AM, javocado <javocado at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a FreeBSD 10.0 installation in a vmware guest and I'd like to expand
> the zpool. Obviously it's very simple to expand the disk size within
> vmware, but I just want to make sure this command - which _appears_ to work
> fine - is really safe and sane to properly expand the pool to the full size
> of the the new, larger disk:
> 
> zpool online -e pool /dev/da1

I've been using exactly that command for a long time to extend zpools in virtual machines with the expected results.