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Date:      Thu, 19 Nov 2015 11:01:25 -0800
From:      Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org>
To:        freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: adding diskspace to a bhyve instance
Message-ID:  <564E1C85.6080004@nomadlogic.org>
In-Reply-To: <20151119172034.GA93977@potato.growveg.org>
References:  <20151119172034.GA93977@potato.growveg.org>

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On 11/19/15 09:20, John wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> What's the best way of increasing the space of a bhyve guest instance?
> Would it be via growfs? Inside or outside of the vm? Or would it be
> better to truncate another chunk of space and refer to it in /etc/fstab?
> 

for virtualized instances that use UFS i have used growfs with success.
 what is backing your vm image?  if it is zfs you can most likely grow
the filesystem where your vm image lives then use growfs (if ufs) in the VM.

hope this helps,
-pete

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Pete Wright
pete@nomadlogic.org
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