Expand boot disk

[Leaderbot_X400]

I would like to expand the main drive in my pfsense VM, in proxmox i have already given it more space but pfsense has not grabbed the larger area even though the console shows that it did something in gpart, any ideas?

[Gertjan]

I guess you need to do this.

[Leaderbot_X400]

@gertjan I did that and I did not work pfsense would not grab it even when the partition was expanded, gpart grabbed it and expanded the main partition but it would not expand on pfsense

[jimp]

The best way is to reinstall.

If it's UFS, you can touch /root/force_growfs and reboot.

If it's ZFS you might be able to set autoexpand to on for the pool and restart, I can't recall 100% what the right procedure is there.

Personally I'd reinstall, recover config.xml, and be back up and running in minutes without any question about what will happen.

[Leaderbot_X400]

@jimp i just ended up reinstalling because nothing else was working. thanks for the help though