UFS Growing Disks

TobiasW

TobiasW

Hello everybody,

I tried to grow a UFS Partition inside a virtualbox VM (.vhd disk format).

I went trough https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/disks-growing.html and everything was fine until

Code: 
growfs /dev/ada1p3
Operation not permitted
occurred.

I googled a bit around and found following thread
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and noticed that
growfs /dev/gpt/rootfs
worked smoothly.

Is this intended? Might it be a good idea to add a note to the documentation?

Best,
Tobias
 
I have the same problem here:

forums.freebsd.org

UFS - How to resize the root partition after enlarging the hard disk?

I have a virtual machine with FreeBSD inside Virtualbox, the disk is 20GB let's say, and want to enlarge it to 50GB. With Virtualbox tools I just enlarge the disk no problem, but how do I do to resize the root filesystem, which is a freebsd-ufs type at /dev/ada0p4 device?
forums.freebsd.org forums.freebsd.org

Maybe is that you should not be able to use growfs on mounted filesystems?
 
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