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On 12.01.2013 00:39, Rick Liu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running OpenSUSE12.2 on VMware ESXi5.
> I create /local using BTRFS file system with 3 devices (sdc, sdd, sde).
> These 3 devices are VMware's virtual disk (vmdk files).
> 
> Instead of adding another new virtual disk,
> ESXi allows to increase Virtual Disk size,
> so I increase the size for 3 devices (sdc, sdd, sde) from 300GB to 500GB for each.
> 
> In EXT4 file system,
> I can resize (grow) partition directly.
> How to do this on BTRFS partition?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rick

Hi Rick,

use
btrfs fi resize <devid>:max
to make btrfs use all space of disk <devid>

Joshua