I have an old FreeBSD Server (running 7.3-RELEASE) that desperately needs additional storage. In fact, it has some-- the original 20G SCSI drives have been replaced by 300G SCSI drives, so in theory there is 280G available that could be used.
I'd like to make use of this space. I think the best way to do this is by formatting the unused space as a new slice on the existing drive, but I'm not clear how to do this without destroying the data on the existing slice. Most of the documentation I can find about doing this refers to initial installation. I know how to set up slices and partitions during initial installation, but not how to claim unused space on the drive AFTER initial installation.
(I'd also be happy to expand the slice and add additional partitions to the existing slice, but I've heard that this is riskier).
I thought the easy way to do this might be to use /stand/sysinstall, but when I go into either Configure->FDisk or Configure->Label, I get this message:
This is obviously untrue, since I'm actually running off of a disk when I get this message, but maybe sysinstall just doesn't like messing with the boot disk?
Output of fdisk da0:
Output of bsdlabel da0s1
Update:
I came a cross the advice to use sade for this purpose. Unfortunately, sade can't see much empty space:
This may be a dead end. Do I need to figure out drive geometry somehow? It might be relevant to mention that the drive is a RAID 1 mirror set; originally the mirrored drives were both 20G SCSI drives but they've both been swapped out with 300G drives. I'm willing to temporarily break the mirror if that will help.