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Re: [Xen-users] resize xen disk file

To: "Javier Guerra" <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>

From: "Martin Fernandez" <martingfernandez@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 10:32:21 -0200

Cc: Brian Stempin <brian.stempin@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-users <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Martin Fernandez <martingfernandez@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Now I can see the free space, but I cant extend the LV

[root@boldtsamqa ~]# pvresize --setphysicalvolumesize 8GB /dev/xvda2
WARNING: /dev/xvda2: Overriding real size. You could lose data.
Physical volume "/dev/xvda2" changed
1 physical volume(s) resized / 0 physical volume(s) not resized

[root@boldtsamqa ~]# lvextend -L+3G /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
Extending logical volume LogVol00 to 6.84 GB
device-mapper: table: device 202:2 too small for target
device-mapper: table: 253:0: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed
device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument
Failed to suspend LogVol00

Any ideas?

Thanks all for your help

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Javier Guerra <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Martin Fernandez
<martingfernandez@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I resized the file disk using:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=image bs=1M conv=notrunc count=1 seek=10240
> But when I boot up my VM I can't see the new space

what does /proc/partitions say? the old size?

if it's the new size, then you need to do a pvresize so that the LVM
system gets it.

if it's the old size, something's fishy...

--
Javier

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