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Re: [Xen-users] Resizing partitions on a VM sitting on a LVM volume

To: Erich Weiler <weiler@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Resizing partitions on a VM sitting on a LVM volume
From: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:44:29 +0000
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Out of interest, did resizing the ext3 filesystem itself work properly once 
you'd enlarged the partition?  Did you just use resize2fs?

Cheers,
Mark

On Friday 11 January 2008, Erich Weiler wrote:
> > Partition 5 is formatted with ext3.  parted isn't liking this but i think
> > that's because it's having trouble resizing the ext3 filesystem, rather
> > than because it can't resize the partition itself.
> >
> > Is the filesystem mounted at the time?  Maybe it can't be live-resized?
>
> No, the file system was definitely not mounted at the time.  I was able
> to do this using fdisk as Alain suggested earlier.  Thanks for offering
> your advice though!
>
> -erich



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