I wrote:
It may be possible to detatch a volume and re-attach it with xm but
I've never done that.
Well now I have. Advance planning says I'll need a bit more space on
a volume, and there was a little bit of space available on the iSCSI
box (so a case of grab it while it's there, before someone else does
!).
Unmounted the volume in the guest, then :
# cat backup
<stuff deleted>
disk = [ 'phy:vg0/backuproot,xvda1,w',
'phy:vg0/backupvar,xvda2,w',
'phy:/dev/disk/by-path/ip-<very-long-iscsi-address>,xvda3,w',
'phy:vg0/backupswap,xvda4,w' ]
# xm list
Name ID Mem VCPUs State Time(s)
Domain-0 0 486 4 r----- 67982.4
backup 11 511 2 -b---- 135441.2
# xm block-detach 11 xvda3
<do any other steps required, such as altering partitions or resizing
LVM volumes>
# xm block-attach 11 '/dev/disk/by-path/ip-<very-long-iscsi-address>'
/dev/xvda3 r
Error: Device 51715 (vbd) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not working.
Usage: xm block-attach <Domain> <BackDev> <FrontDev> <Mode> [BackDomain]
Create a new virtual block device.
Checked in teh guest and the device didn't re-appear, so tried again :
# xm block-attach 11 '/dev/disk/by-path/ip-<very-long-iscsi-address>'
/dev/xvda3 r
Error: Device /dev/xvda3 (51715, vbd) is already connected.
Usage: xm block-attach <Domain> <BackDev> <FrontDev> <Mode> [BackDomain]
Create a new virtual block device.
So I still had to shutdown and re-create the guest for the size
change to appear.
In any case, at least with ext3, you need the filesystem unmounted
in order to resize it.
As "Bart Van Kerckhove" <bart@xxxxxxxx> pointed out, you can do
online resize of an ext3 filesystem :
# df -h /store
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda3 99G 44G 51G 47% /store
# resize2fs /dev/xvda3
resize2fs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
Filesystem at /dev/xvda3 is mounted on /store; on-line resizing required
old desc_blocks = 7, new_desc_blocks = 10
Performing an on-line resize of /dev/xvda3 to 39321087 (4k) blocks.
The filesystem on /dev/xvda3 is now 39321087 blocks long.
# df -h /store
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda3 148G 44G 97G 31% /store
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