[CentOS-virt] qemu-img resize - False Alarm

aurfalien aurfalien at gmail.com
Fri Jun 7 03:30:07 UTC 2013


Sorry folks.

Didn't realize resize creates a sparse file.

All good.

Gotta say, resize/lvm rocks.

- aurf

On Jun 6, 2013, at 5:44 PM, aurfalien wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been using qemu-img resize for a few days now, seems fine.
> 
> But if I du the VMs image file, it still shows the size before resizing.
> 
> Inside that VM, the new size shows correctly.
> 
> Is qemu-img resize the right tool for this?
> 
> Once I qemu-img resize, I then use various fdisk/ LVM tools, etc... to resize within the VM just incase you all were wondering.
> 
> - aurf



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