I am trying to resize a secondary data disk on a Debian Linux Virtual machine. The data really isn't all that important, its video from IP security cameras. Since nothing has happened that needs reviewed I could scrap it and start over. However I can't even do that.

I tried just setting the volsize to a larger value while the vm is shutdown. zfs excepts the command, I boot up the VM but it is not recognizing the volume properly I can see that its grown, but it errors trying to update the GPT partition table with the new size. I gave up shutdown VM and tried to delete the zvol so I could create a new one. However it believes the zvol is in use and wont let me destroy it. So something funky seems to be going on. oddly enough I set the zvol back to the original size boot up the vm, all the data is intact and functioning just fine. So somehow I can't break it despite doing all kinds of things that could have and probably should have destroyed the data.

I am going to guess the only thing I have left to try is disable vms on startup and reboot to see if I can then destroy the zvol and create a new larger one. But I was hoping someone else might have another suggestion to correctly increase the volume size.

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Thanks,
   Dean E. Weimer
   http://www.dweimer.net/
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