FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2012, Luke Bakken wrote:

>> You'll of course need to boot from another medium to do this.
>>
>
> That's my main question - can a larger disk be detected *without* a
> reboot. On FreeBSD instances running within VMWare I have been able to
> add new disks without a reboot but, as I described below, have not
> found a way to get the operating system to detect a larger *existing*
> disk without a reboot. VMWare allows you to resize a disk on the fly.
> Obviously I'm only interested in the "grow the disk" scenario :-)

Force a GEOM retaste?

# true > /dev/ada0