trying to expand a zvol-backed bhyve guest which is UFS

Adam amvandemore at gmail.com
Mon May 20 03:17:48 UTC 2019


On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 9:47 PM tech-lists <tech-lists at zyxst.net> wrote:

> Thanks very much to you both, all sorted now. I didn't realise there was
> a 2TB limit for MBR either. Can I shrink the 4TB to 2TB on the zfs side
> without scrambling the ufs on the guest?
>

You can snapshot the zvol to be safe, but you should be able to shrink it
to the existing partition size.  If it's a sparse zvol, it may not may that
much difference.
-- 
Adam


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