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Thanks to everyone that replied. Ed gave me the right clue that I was missing (and is apparently missing in a lot of the how-to's that I reviewed which only said to expand the LV, then expand the filesystem). I had to expand the partition before expanding the filesystem. So for my solution I rebooted that particular VM using SystemRescue LiveCD, then started GParted and expanded the partition which also expanded the filesystem in a single step. Then rebooted using the VM's image and #df -h now shows the expanded LV and a file system on the full space.
Jeff
Jeff Boyce writes:
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I'm sorry I didn't see this thread on time, could have saved some people some time. To resize guests you can use virt-resize from the libguestfs suite:
virt-resize --expand /dev/vdX /vg0/lv0 /vg0/new_bigger_lv
That will resize the partition and the filesystem on it. RH is paying a full-time developer for libguestfs, we might as well use it. Use the latest version: http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs-RHEL-6.3-preview/README.txt
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