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Date:      Sun, 19 May 2019 22:17:35 -0500
From:      Adam <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: trying to expand a zvol-backed bhyve guest which is UFS
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On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 9:47 PM tech-lists <tech-lists@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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