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Re: [Xen-users] How do I resize a Physical Partition in a Dom U that's "
Bob Linkonij wrote:
What I want to do now is increase the size of the Dom U's root
(/dev/xvdc) partition. And I want to avoid losing, overwriting, or
screwing up somehow my data in the process :-)
I know the first step I have to do is increase the size of the right
LV, that matches the /dev/xvdc1 "root" partition in the Dom U, in the
Dom 0 first. I do that with
lvextend -L +4G /dev/VG01 guest_root
Can I do that "hot" without shutting down the Dom U first? Or do I
need to shut it down THEN do the lvextend?
You can do that 'hot'
The next step is what's got me confused.
The lvcreate I did first increased the size of "/dev/xvdc", but now I
need to grow or extend the "/dev/xvdc1" partition in the Dom U to fill
up to the maximum available.
Do I do that in the Dom U or in the Dom 0? I think resize2fs needs to
be used, since I don't have a Logical Volume in the Dom U. I just
don't know.
I'm not clear here - did you partition /dev/xvdc and create a
filesystem on /dev/xvdc1, or did you create a filesystem on /dev/xvdc
? I do the latter.
If you create a filesystem on the disk device rather than
partitioning it, then you can shutdown the guest, use resize2fs to
enlarge the filesystem in it, and startup the guest.
If you created a partition, then you will need to deal with that. I
think there was a discussion a while back on mounting partitions from
a partition. You'll need to enlarge the partition to fill the disk,
and then you can resize the filesystem in it. Other than doing it
from within the guest I don't know how to do that. Once you shutdown
and then start up (NOT reboot) the guest, it will see the new logical
volume as a bigger disk - I don't know if there is any way to make
this happen 'live'.
I'm sorry if I'm just missing what's obvious but I'm kind of confused
by the whole Logical/Physical differences in the Dom 0 and the Dom U.
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