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Date:      Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:15:45 +0100
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: QEMU: increase image size with FreeBSD partitions ...
Message-ID:  <ghld08$e5h$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <4CF66154353CD7ABCB17FB03@ganymede.hub.org>
References:  <4CF66154353CD7ABCB17FB03@ganymede.hub.org>

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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>=20
> I have FreeBSD 7 running in a QEMU VM ... works like a charm, but I'm w=
ondering=20
> if there is some way of *increasing* the size of the image beyond what =
I=20
> configured it for?  I'm only finding stuff pertaining to NTFS/FAT32, bu=
t=20
> nothing about Unix in general, or FreeBSD specifically ...
>=20
> Is there any way of doing this, or do I have to build a new, larger img=
, and=20
> copy the data from diskA -> diskB, and reboot on diskB?  Doable, but ti=
me=20
> consuming ...

I don't think there's anything automatic but you can grow the virtual
disk, then modify the last partition size by hand, then use growfs.


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