Re: [Xen-users] Managing DomU partitions in XEN+LVM systems?

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx>]

Derek wrote:
>   disk = [ 'phy:/dev/mapper/main-root_disk_winxp,hda,w' , ... others ... ]

> That would seem trivial to do, from within dom0 (while the domU is not
> running of course.)  Just use:
>   - lvextend to enlarge the volume
>   - fdisk (or parted) to enlarge the partition
>  - ntfsresize to enlarge the filesystem
> 
> The first two steps work flawlessly.  The third step is problematic,
> because ntfsresize wants to be told the device path to the _partition_,
> not to the _whole_disk_.

Yo can either use kpartx (comes with mulitpath tools) to create device
mapper mappings for the partitions or use something like
        xm block-attach 0 "phy:grp/vol" xvda w
to access the volume as virtual disk in domain zero (/dev/xvda1 is your
partition then).

HTH,
  Gerd

-- 
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx>

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