Re: [Xen-users] Re: Resizing Windows LVM makes it unbootable

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 10:53:27AM +0530, Ligesh wrote:
>   
> >    I have a working windows lvm of 1.62GB size. I just do an lvextend +1Gb
> >    on it, and then the Guest gets stuck at 'booting from harddisk' the
> >    initial stage. Is there something more I should do? I had tried getting
> >    it working with parted etc, but it doesn't seem to work. Is there some
> >    documentation on manipulating windows image files and the partitions
> >    inside them?
> >     
> You'd almost certainly want to resize the filesystem inside the LV as well,
> to minimise confusion.  I can't find a vfat resizer on my system, but
> there's ntfsresize here.  Difficulties may arise if there's internal
> partition tables in the LV, but I've never played with HVM domains so I
> don't know if that sort of thing goes on or if the partition table is
> managed at some higher level.
>   
There's not much point to a VFAT resizer. It's almost always easier to 
mount it, copy to a new directory, unmount it, rebuild with a new size 
that partition, then copy the material back. VFAT doesn't have the 
complex ownership settings of NTFS, so that should work. (I've used that 
for dual-boot OS building on thousands of machines: it works well.)
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