growfs only works on GPT partitioning schemes?

[Mars G Miro]

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 10:32 PM, Martin Simmons <martin at lispworks.com>
wrote:

> >>>>> On Fri, 9 Mar 2018 15:03:06 +0800, Mars G Miro said:
> >
> > It does have 2 snapshots in fact, this is a known problem ?
> >
> > ...
> >
> > vboxmanage showhdinfo FreeBSD11.1x64_1.vdi
> >
> > UUID:           1e5e1cab-2281-445c-9ded-10e7877cc4a4
> > Parent UUID:    base
> > State:          locked read
> > Type:           normal (base)
> > Location:       C:\XXXXXXXXXXX\FreeBSD11.1x64_1.vdi
> > Storage format: VDI
> > Format variant: dynamic default
> > Capacity:       81920 MBytes
> > Size on disk:   28419 MBytes
> > Encryption:     disabled
> > In use by VMs:  FreeBSD11.1x64#1 (UUID:
> > 2231222c-b7aa-4976-ba5e-a4524a7d7287) [Snapshot#1 (UUID:
> > 54b79fb2-faa3-4072-a651-2f270022b950)]
> > Child UUIDs:    46e7ebef-dd79-4147-b82d-f4abf75e50d2
> >
> >
> > vboxmanage showhdinfo FreeBSD11.1x64_2.vdi
> >
> > UUID:           ef5bd266-fc22-402b-9ee6-126cb4d2bdaf
> > Parent UUID:    base
> > State:          locked write
> > Type:           normal (base)
> > Location:       C:\XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX\FreeBSD11.1x64_2.vdi
> > Storage format: VDI
> > Format variant: dynamic default
> > Capacity:       61440 MBytes
> > Size on disk:   12084 MBytes
> > Encryption:     disabled
> > In use by VMs:  FreeBSD11.1x64#1 (UUID:
> > 2231222c-b7aa-4976-ba5e-a4524a7d7287)
>
> Yes, that is the problem (your first disk has snapshots, but you probably
> only
> resized the base vdi).
>
> Some people on the internet report success after resizing all the
> snapshots as
> well (see the "Child UUIDs" in the output and recurse).  I would make a
> backup
> before doing this.
>
> Your second disk doesn't have snapshots, which is why resizing it worked.


> __Martin
>


I checked my snapshot and the current state, they are already 80Gb (the
increased size):

https://ibb.co/fMzFoS

Okay so they suggest to delete the snapshot prior to resizing:

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=50661

I might as well try that.

Thanks.


-- 
cheers
mars
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