Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:19:51 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Luke Bakken <luke@bowbak.org> Cc: Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1212180818490.43201@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <CAKZjE32SMCgCa7NYqtgmSTntDMfwds2XccdQUz_SmXhJL9Zbsw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAKZjE30RSfLneqVEP1qpQNvQu-=J8ky4ipM9Bh7US5QPOz22UA@mail.gmail.com> <3EB59092-BFE2-4C5F-85A2-E225FBC3F5D9@fisglobal.com> <CAKZjE32SMCgCa7NYqtgmSTntDMfwds2XccdQUz_SmXhJL9Zbsw@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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