Ova appliance harddisk size

[heliop100]

Hi

I downloaded the OVA and deployed the 2.2.2 Appliance, but now I realize that the disk size are very small, only 5Gb.
Only testing before use on production and 93% disk full. Most of that on /var and /usr.

Are there a easy way to expand the file system?

Thanks.

[Guest]

I downloaded the OVA and deployed the 2.2.2 Appliance,

What please is OVA?

but now I realize that the disk size are very small, only 5Gb.

From what disk we are talking about mSATA, CFCard, SSD, SDCard, HDD, SATA-DOM or SSD-DOM?

Only testing before use on production and 93% disk full. Most of that on /var and /usr.

How did you install it and from waht?

• USB MEMStick to ?
• Full install from ISO to ?

Are there a easy way to expand the file system?

With another disk perhaps or a greater one perhaps?

[nicholfd]

@BlueKobold:

What please is OVA?

From what disk we are talking about mSATA, CFCard, SSD, SDCard, HDD, SATA-DOM or SSD-DOM?

How did you install it and from waht?

• USB MEMStick to ?
• Full install from ISO to ?

With another disk perhaps or a greater one perhaps?

BlueKobold - An OVA is a VMware "virtual appliance".  It is a pre-built virtual machine with pfSense installed & optimized, available to those who are Gold members.  So, the HD is already defined.

heliop100 - I'm not sure if the FS on *BSD is resizable.  You might want to Google it… (I'm too lazy at the moment).  I know you can resize the virtual disk from the VMware side, just not sure about the FS.

[heliop100]

Hi,

I Google BSD foruns and have expanded my hard disk from 5 to 50Gb

Worked on 2.2.2 OVA

It's always a good idea backup you VM before do that.

turn off swap

swapoff /dev/label/swap0

delete swap partition

gpart delete -i2 da0s1

expand primary partition

gpart resize -i1 da0
gpart commit da0s1

expand root partition (49g save 1gb for swap)

gpart resize -i1 -s 49g da0s1

recreate swap

gpart add -t freebsd-swap da0s1

boot from live CD or single user

growfs /dev/da0s1a

Reboot and edit fstab to add new swap /dev/da0s1b

Add new swap

swapon -a

[DaReaLDeviL]

Hi Heliop100,

thank you for the step by step instruction. I just tried this with the 2.3.3 ova and want it to resize to a full amount of 62 GB.

After the command
swapoff /dev/label/swap0

I get the errors like attached and the gpart show of the disks.

I'm not a pro at that, just a hobby thing. So please be patient with me. I do need some safe advice here  ;)

Thank you!

[DaReaLDeviL]

So I found a good link to some commands here:

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/disks-growing.html

I now have it set like attached with the command

gpart resize -i2 da0

service growfs onestart

and it took all free space into the ufs partition

but now is the question:

There was no swap hdd, do I realy need one? PFSense is on SSD with 4 gig ram


[heliop100]

Hi,

I´m not a BSD expert, not shure what may happen without swap.
My pfsense have Snort installed, and my Snort stops working due to full swap.
How my are a virtual machine, I add a new 8Gb disk and made that all disk a swap partition.

If yours are physical, you may create a swap file.

cheers

[DaReaLDeviL]

Hi Heliop,

it is a virtual machine like yours made with the newest ova… but that there is no swap suprises me.

I'm going to test it out what happens, i have squid, guard, snort and blocker. Think that will be enough  ;)