Re: [Xen-users] increase size for dom guest using lvm online

["Bart Van Kerckhove" <bart@xxxxxxxx>]

Just for the sake of it: ext3 has supported online expansion for some time 
now.
-Bart
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Hobson" <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Aclhk Aclhk" <aclhkaclhk@xxxxxxxxx>; <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] increase size for dom guest using lvm online


> Aclhk Aclhk wrote:
> > could we increase the size for dom guest online without rebooting or 
> > unmounting?
> I don't believe so. At the moment, I believe the size passed to the guest 
> is fixed at creating time, so if you enlarge the volume, the guest won't 
> get to know about it until it is shut down and re-created. It may be 
> possible to detatch a volume and re-attach it with xm but I've never done 
> that.
> In any case, at least with ext3, you need the filesystem unmounted in 
> order to resize it.
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