How to extend ZFS partition

I have a FreeBSD server which used to run of a smaller SSD drive. When replaced with a larger capacity SSD by using dd command to clone the disk, there is free space allocated. I want to extend the existing zroot pool to use this space. The following describes how I achieve this with the help of a forum post. Let’s list some information about the zroot pool: root@nas:~ # zfs list zroot NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT zroot 4.88G 50.8G 144K none List the partition scheme of the drive I’d like to extend my zroot zpool with: ...

March 11, 2018 · 2 min · 302 words · kenno