I don't know which keywords you used but I found, literally, hundreds.Google has failed me again.
Honestly, I think it's quickest and simplest to grab a FreeBSD iso file and do a fresh install with a virtual HDD of the appropriate size. Mostly if you begin with FreeBSD.
reckon i will try this
When I was speaking of the "appropriate size", I meant 10 GiB at least. And if you want to have a future on this installation, go on 20 GiB; 50 GiB would be better. Do not forget that the real size taken by a dynamic virtual box disk isn't the maximum size unless you use all of its space. It grows as needed.
gpart list
/ gpart show
say the default 3.0G filesystem is ada0p3 (disk ada0, index 3). This guide correctly said that the disk was listed as [CORRUPT]
using gpart show, and that annotation was removed by running gpart recover ada0
. gpart resize -i 3 ada0
was pretty noisy with "ATA Status Error" / "DRDY ERR" but the subsequent service growfs onestart
seems to have worked fine. The filesystem is now resized as I would expect, given the size I set in the VirtualBox media manager.