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

To: Robin Bowes <robin-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] DomU guest - resize disk on LVM?
From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:27:24 +0100
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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?

cheers,

  Gerd

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