[CentOS] Changing size of a xen guest filesystem
Jussi Hirvi
listmember at greenspot.fi
Thu Feb 4 10:53:33 UTC 2010
On 3.2.2010 19:54, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 12:26:13PM +0200, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
>> It should be easy, but I have not yet found a solution. Only some
>> methods involving use of dd, but that sounds a little scary to me
>> on a production server.
>>
>> I wish there would be a command "virt-resize", but no... Maybe
>> "virt-clone", with the option --file=DISKFILE, could be bended to
>> do this?
>
> If you're using LVM volumes to store guest disks, then you can do
> "lvextend" in the host.
Nope, I use disk images (sparse).
> And then do necessary steps in the guest, to resize the
> partitions/filesystems.
Ok, looks like this can not be done all in one step.
- Jussi
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