growfs only works on GPT partitioning schemes?
Mars G Miro
spry at anarchy.in.the.ph
Sat Mar 3 15:29:29 UTC 2018
On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 7:33 PM, Edward Tomasz Napierała <trasz at freebsd.org>
wrote:
> 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?
>
>
Supposedly the first drive should already have been 80Gb but:
mars at fbsd11vm1:~ % geom disk list
...
Geom name: ada0
Providers:
1. Name: ada0
Mediasize: 42949672960 (40G)
Sectorsize: 512
Mode: r3w3e6
descr: VBOX HARDDISK
ident: VB1e5e1cab-a4c47c87
rotationrate: 0
fwsectors: 63
fwheads: 16
Geom name: ada1
Providers:
1. Name: ada1
Mediasize: 64424509440 (60G)
Sectorsize: 512
Mode: r2w2e3
descr: VBOX HARDDISK
ident: VBef5bd266-afbdd2b4
rotationrate: 0
fwsectors: 63
fwheads: 16
Thanks!
--
cheers
mars
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