[Xen-users] resizing filesystem in a VM

[Alexandre Chapellon <a.chapellon@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I am using Xen 4.0.1 and Xen 3.2.1 dom0 with Debian Lenny and Squeeze dom0s.
I have a bunch of virtual machines running , all using LVM as backend storage.
Mostly, an LVM logical volume is mapped to a partition in the VM (eg: xvda1)
I have tried to hot resize the filesystem in the VM without umounting it but it just do not work... Here is what I did:

 - lvextend on the dom0,
 - resize2fs on the VM

Doing so, the kernel of the virtual machine seems not to see the space available for the partition has changed and resize2fs returns: "xvda already has xxxxxxxxx blocks, Nothing to do"

This last until I hot remove the disk from the VM using xm block-detach and re-attach it using xm block attach.
After re-attaching  the disk I can resize2fs as expected.

Is there anything I can do to avoid detaching the block device from the VM to let the kernel know the partition has a new size?
What are the bests practices in Xen to achieve hot resize of filesystem in the VM?

Regards.

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