[Xen-users] Re: Managing DomU partitions in XEN+LVM systems?

[Ligesh <myself@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 Sorry to intrude into a past thread. But I merely did an lvextend on a windows 
image, and then Xen completely refuses to boot itself. It just hangs at the 
initial 'booting from harddisk' stage, and doesn't even go to windows. I am 
using Xen 3.0.4 on RHEL-5. Is this a bug in Xen-3.0?

 Can someone confirm that what's explained below works properly in practice? I 
extended the partition using parted, but even then it doesn't go past the 
initial stage. But again, shouldn't windows boot if you merely do an lvextend. 
I mean, I am not expecting it to automatically fill the new space--for that 
ntfsresize, and parted/fdisk are needed--but should Xen hang at the beginning 
itself on a mere lvextend?

 what's the Xen version Jordi used?

 Thanks a lot in advance.


On Friday 20 April 2007, Jordi Segues wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for your answers.
> It's exact, when you recreate the table the data is not lost.
>
> There are my commands:
>
> #You extend your LVM partition
> lvextend -L +5G /dev/LVM/2003-clone
>
> #Open cfdisk
> fdisk /dev/LVM/2003-clone
>
>       #Delete NTFS partition
>       #Recreate a bigger NTFS partition
>       #Put the boot flag
>       #We write changes "W"
>       #Quit cfdisk
>
> #We make a ntfsresize, it will extend the old NTFS filesystem to the
> new size of the LVM partition
> kpartx -a /dev/LVM/2003-clone
> ntfsresize /dev/mapper/2003-clonep1
> kpartx -d /dev/LVM/2003-clone
>
> #Now windows 2003 boots perfectly, without data loss and with more disk
> space ;)
>

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