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Re: [Xen-users] DomU guest - resize disk on LVM?

To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] DomU guest - resize disk on LVM?
From: "Ulrich Windl" <ulrich.windl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:39:31 +0100
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On 31 Oct 2006 at 9:27, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:

> Robin Bowes wrote:
> > I can increase the size of the under-lying logical volume
> > (/dev/vg01/lv_bah_vm) e.g increase it from 10GB to 15GB. But, even
> > though I've resized the under-lying LV, the PV in the Xen guest is still
> > only 10GB.
> > 
> > How do I get the PV inside the Xen guest to reflect the increased size
> > of the under-lying disk, i.e. appear to be 15GB?
> 
> I think you can't resize PVs.  How about creating a new /dev/hda3
> partition (inside the guest) using the new disk space, create a new pv
> there, add that to the volume group?

When creating a new PV, you are not resizing an existing PV.

Ulrich

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