On Dec 18, 2012, at 6:35 AM, 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 :-) > > I'm beginning to think a reboot is necessary, which is surprising!
Live resize (without reboot even) is something being worked on for the future 10.x series. -- Devin > >> On Dec 17, 2012, at 4:15 PM, Luke Bakken wrote: >> >> Hello everyone - >> >> I'm looking for a way to get FreeBSD 8 / 9 to detect that an already >> existing disk has grown. I have FreeBSD running as a guest within >> vSphere ESX 5. Here is the output of camcontrol showing how the disks >> are detected within the OS: >> >> [root@QA1HWFBSD83201 ~]# camcontrol inquiry da0 >> pass0: <VMware Virtual disk 1.0> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device >> pass0: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit), Command >> Queueing Enabled >> >> In the VM settings I can increase the disk size but I can't seem to >> find the right command within FreeBSD to force it to detect the new, >> larger size without a reboot. 'camcontrol rescan all' works great to >> detect a new drive but doesn't detect a larger disk. Within a Linux >> distribution like Debian, the following command will detect the larger >> drive: >> >> echo 1 > /sys/class/scsi_device/0:0:0:0/device/rescan >> >> I apologize if this has been answered in the archives or online but I >> just haven't been able to get a definitive answer if this is possible, >> and how. >> >> Thanks so much in advance, >> Luke >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >> >> >> _____________ >> The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or >> confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the >> message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message >> in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please >> be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving >> and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. _____________ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
