Re-read disk size in Solaris 10 x86 / VMware

Hi
Using
# uname -a
SunOS host1 5.10 Generic_142910-17 i86pc i386 i86pc
We have a 30G virtual disk, on top of which a UFS filesystem is living, mounted, and used.
The Virtual disk has been resized to 40G.
I know I need to change the fdisk partition size, after which i can change the "format" partition size, then use growfs.
But I don't know how to get S10 to recognise the new size for the disk.
fdisk tells me
Total disk size is 3916 cylinders
Cylinder size is 16065 (512 byte) blocks
Cylinders
Partition   Status
Type
Start   End   Length
=========   ======
============ =====   ===   ======   ===
1
Active
Solaris2
1 3915
3915
100
# prtvtoc -h /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s2
       0      0    00      16065 62846280 62862344   /xxx
       2      5    01          0 62862345 62862344
       8      1    01          0     16065     16064
# df -h /xxx
Filesystem             size   used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c1t2d0s0       30G    29G   498M    99%    /xxx
On Linux I might use partprobe or blockdev --rereadpt but on Solaris?
Cheers
KM

Hello
this document should help, but make a backkup before running it
How to expand a UFS Lun in Solaris 10 (Doc ID 1451858.1)
Regards
Eze

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* /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 partition map
* Dimensions:
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selecting c0t0d0
[disk formatted]
Warning: Current Disk has mounted partitions.
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====== ====== ============ ===== === ====== ===
1 Active Solaris2 1 2350 2350 26
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