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Re: [Xen-users] resize xen disk file

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Brian Stempin wrote:
Rudi,

conv=notrunc prevents dd from truncating the file. Normally, dd would just overwrite the file. When using conv=notrunc, dd will leave the existing data alone and stop taking on 0s when the desired file size is reached.

Great, so existing data should still stay the same then?
Setting up LVM inside of a VM is the most useful in cases where you give the VM direct disk access. Since you have a file (or a series of files), most of the advantages that LVM affords you are redundant.
Ok, so you're saying that when I setup the VM's / dum_U's, and I get to the partitioning part, that I should use LVM? Even thoug h LVM is already being used on dom0 / the main server's hard drives? That sounds odd to me, but I'll give it a shot on my next VM deployment
Use LVM to create partitions, on Dom0, to act like block devices on DomU. Use them as raw block block devices, not LVM, inside the DomU: you can add a pretty arbitrary number of such block devices in DomU, and do your resizing on Dom0 with the DomU shut down. This works well for everything except the boot loader, which is its own adventure in Xen.


Since you're using LVM, you'll have to expand your LVM partitions before you can expand the underlying EXT2 file system. As indicated earlier in this email chain, you can expand your LVM group via pvresize and lvextend.
My main system still has plenty space on the HDD's, and I use image files for the VM's, not seperate LV's / PV's - The only reason I use LVM is to make it easier to upgrade the HDD's
Hmm. Can you keep snapshotting that way? And don't you suffer a performance penalty?

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I havent' tired it yet, but it's the theory. Apparently if I add more / bigger drives to the system (which runs software RAID), then I should just be able to extend the PV's? Like I said, I haven't tried it yet, so I don't know if / how it will actually work. But now that you mention it, I should probably try it out sometime


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