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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