growfs only works on GPT partitioning schemes?

Edward Tomasz Napierała trasz at FreeBSD.org
Sat Mar 3 11:33:10 UTC 2018


On 0303T1513, Mars G. Miro wrote:
> On 02/26/18 22:30, Warner Losh wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 7:11 AM, Martin Simmons <martin at lispworks.com
> > <mailto:martin at lispworks.com>> wrote:
> > 
> >     >>>>> On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:55:10 +0800, Mars G Miro said:
> >     >
> >     >    It seems that growfs only works on GPT partitioned schemes ?
> >     >
> >     >    When I first installed my FreeBSD, I unfortunately chose BSD during the
> >     > FS creation. Now that I ran out of space, I wanted to increase the
> >     > filesystem size. Successfully did so in Virtualbox but after rebooting, the
> >     > HD doesn't see the new allocated space. It has another virtual HD, one
> >     > created with GPT and I was able to increase it via growfs.
> > 
> >     For the BSD scheme, I think you also have to resize the slice (i.e.
> >     the MBR
> >     entry) and then resize the BSD partition within the slice.
> > 
> > 
> > You do. The /etc/rc.d script that does resize on boot does that
> > automatically, but we have no other automation for the process.
> > 
> > Warner 
> 
> You guys have any idea how to resize the slice ?
> 
> I have 2 HDs, both have already been increased (in VirtualBox). The BSD
> partitioned scheme below doesn't see the newly allocated disk space,
> only the GPT one.
> 
> camcontrol reprobe / gpart recover / etc doesn't do anything.
> 
> mars at fbsd11vm1:~ % gpart  show
> =>       0  83886080  ada0  BSD  (40G)
>          0   4194304     1  freebsd-ufs  (2.0G)
>    4194304  16777216     2  freebsd-ufs  (8.0G)
>   20971520  62914559     4  freebsd-ufs  (30G)
>   83886079         1        - free -  (512B)
> 
> =>       40  104857520  ada1  GPT  (60G) [CORRUPT]
>          40   12582912     1  freebsd-swap  (6.0G)
>    12582952   92274608     2  freebsd-ufs  (44G)

What does "geom disk list" show?



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