resize root partition

[Demetrius Albuquerque]

How can I resize root partition of FreeNAS?
=> 63 312581745 ada0 MBR (149G)
63 1930257 1 freebsd [active] (943M)
1930320 63 - free - (32K)
1930383 1930257 2 freebsd (943M)
3860640 3024 3 freebsd (1.5M)
3863664 41328 4 freebsd (20M)
3904992 308676816 - free - (147G)

I have avaliable space on harddrive but I dont know how resize the partition. Thanks

 

[survive]

Hi Demetrius,

The short answer is you don't. Install to a USB key and you will be able to see all your drive.

-Will

 

[Demetrius Albuquerque]

I know that, but this way I can not install ports.tar.gz and install more programs from freebsd base. we dont have any way to change the size?

 

[ProtoSD]

Demetrius,

Will is correct. You can try using Jails for adding other applications, but adding stuff like you want to do will just screw up FreeNAS. It's not impossible, but not practical or worth the trouble. Everytime you did an upgrade you'd have redo all of your changes. FreeNAS 8.2.0 which will be released very soon (first beta is out now), has plugin support, which is implemented using a Jail. You can create you own plugins OR just pop into the jail from the command line and add apps to it.

If you *really* insist on trying to resize your paritions, you could build a FreeBSD system, plugin your flash drive or hard drive and try using some of the tools in FreeBSD to change it, but please don't post about problems here if you do that. You'd probably just be better off building and using FreeBSD and adding just the stuff you want. FreeNAS is not a full OS, it's embedded and not meant to be treated like a fully installed OS.