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Re: [Xen-users] Online resize of guest disks without reboot/shutdown ?

To: Chao-Rui Chang <ppc52776@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Online resize of guest disks without reboot/shutdown ?
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:54:21 +0300
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On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:39:24AM +0800, Chao-Rui Chang wrote:
>    Hello all,
> 
>    I just notice the new feature in the latest version 4 release.
> 
>    Any one know how to do this ?
> 
>    I have tried lvextend the partition size in dom0,
>    but domU doesn't see the change.
>    I also need to reboot to make domU reread the block size.
> 
>    Any idea?
> 

See xen-devel archives for more information about this.
Novell developers recently submitted kernel patches that allow live-resizing 
domU disks.

There was a patch for both dom0 and domU kernels.
Note: Novell's method doesn't require any changes to Xen or the toolstack.

-- Pasi


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