Hi all,
A week ago I installed FreeBSD as a virtual machine in VirtualBox. All works perfect, but as I installed a desktop environment the disk size is small. I make the VDI file greated and growing the partition following https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/disks/#disks-growing. All worked perfect and now I have my expanded VDI file and all works fine, without loss of data. My question is about the Warning section of the handbook section that reads
I applied the order and I could see that the previous value of kern.geom.debugflags was 0. The question is: should I revert the change to something like sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0 or similar? The handbook does not says nothing about this point.
A week ago I installed FreeBSD as a virtual machine in VirtualBox. All works perfect, but as I installed a desktop environment the disk size is small. I make the VDI file greated and growing the partition following https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/disks/#disks-growing. All worked perfect and now I have my expanded VDI file and all works fine, without loss of data. My question is about the Warning section of the handbook section that reads
| There is risk of data loss when modifying the partition table of a mounted file system. It is best to perform the following steps on an unmounted file system while running from a live CD-ROM or USB device. However, if absolutely necessary, a mounted file system can be resized after disabling GEOM GEOM safety features: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 |
I applied the order and I could see that the previous value of kern.geom.debugflags was 0. The question is: should I revert the change to something like sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0 or similar? The handbook does not says nothing about this point.
