Re: [Xen-users] Resize Disk

[Sadique <sadique@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chad Ferge wrote:

Please do your replies to the list.

>The following is the results I get from trying the commands recommended.
>Any recommendations? Let me know. Thanks in advanced.
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>[root@Mars home]# dd if=/dev/zero of=cferge-vm bs=1MB count=0
>seek=20480; e2fsck -f -y cferge-vm; resize2fs -p cferge-vm
>0+0 records in
>0+0 records out
>0 bytes (0 B) copied, 2.7e-05 seconds, 0.0 kB/s
>e2fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
>Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks...
>e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open cferge-vm
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It seems that you haven't created a filesystem on the image befor you
resize it.
Have you created a filesystem runnng "mkfs.ext3 <imagename>" ?

>The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
>filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
>filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
>is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate
>superblock:    e2fsck -b 8193 <device
>resize2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
>resize2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open
>cferge-vm
>Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
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>Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Resize Disk
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> Yes, you can
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>Shutdown the Dom-U
>TO resize it to 20GB
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>dd if=/dev/zero of=<image name> bs=1MB count=0 seek=20480
>e2fsck -f -y <imagename>
>resize2fs -p <image name>
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>Chad F wrote:
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>>Is there a way I can resize the disk/file that Xen is on -- I created a
>>10GB Disk for my install but I've just realized it's not enough; anyway
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>>could possibly increase it to 20gb? or even more if I wanted? Let me
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>know.
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>>Thanks.
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