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      Vapour1ze
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      All, I initially tested with 10gb, now need to expand to 50gb. Below is an output of gpart show. How can I extend to the increased size I have allocated from ESXi?

      Thank you!

      https://flic.kr/p/TbmwjL

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        Digital_ADHD
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        @Vapour1ze:

        All, I initially tested with 10gb, now need to expand to 50gb. Below is an output of gpart show. How can I extend to the increased size I have allocated from ESXi?

        Thank you!

        https://flic.kr/p/TbmwjL

        Maybe you can create a new temp vm running freebsd 10.X, shutdown pfsense and mount the vhd to the temp vm and expand it there, then unmount and boot your pfsense.

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

        http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/117023/expanding-the-disk-size-on-pfsense-under-vmware-esxi

        "pfSense is currently based on FreeBSD 8.x. The ability to grow a UFS filesystem live is only coming with FreeBSD 10.x, so all this should be done from a rescue/install mode."

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          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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          "pfSense is currently based on FreeBSD 8.x."

          Huh??  That is OLD pfsense 2.3.3p1 is current running on freebsd 10.3-RELEASE-p17

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

          Simple enough to test this..  But since this is a VM.. Why don't you just fire up a new vm.. With the correct sized disk and partitions, etc.  Then restore your config to it..

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