On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 06:55:21PM +0000, Chris Humphries wrote:
> Hey all!
>
> I have a VPS account on Vultr, with NetBSD on a VPS there. I would
> like to upgrade my plan, which will include an increase in disk
> size. I want to be sure that I can have NetBSD expand to the new
> available increased size of the disk without much risk of never coming
> back up, or worse, reprovisioning.
>
>
>
> While searching for how to fix this or what others have done, I found
> few resources. I did find the aws ec2 ami page, that says that they
> will expand to the available ebs volume size, but doesn't detail how
> that is done. https://wiki.netbsd.org/amazon_ec2/amis/
>
> I then searched what resources are available on my system already, and
> found /etc/rc.d/resize_root. Will adding "resize_root=YES" to rc.conf
> be all I need to do? Do I need to mess with changing disklabel and
> that mess (have messed that up before and weary to change a production
> system).
I don't think anything will happen, even if you set resize_root=YES
is set, because the partitions in the disklabel won't be changed.
The options actually depends on the actual disklabel
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Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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