Responding to the daily digest, see comment at bottom. > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:01:27 +0100 > From: Markus Falb <markus.falb@xxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Resize guest filesystem question > To: centos-virt@xxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: <jifur8$pmi$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > On 24.2.2012 21:28, Sergiy Yegorov wrote: >> Fri, 24-Feb-2012 12:05:55 Jeff Boyce wrote: >> >>> 6. Then I ran resize2fs /dev/vda2 and got the result that the >>> filesystem >>> is already xx blocks long. Nothing to do! >> Before you can resize filesystem, you have to resize partition. >> If it is only 2 partitions on /dev/vda, you can use one of two ways: >> 1. Resize partition from host system (I think it is not the best idea for >> root >> partition operations): >> Run fdisk /dev/vg/lv_guest1root, delete second partition and create new >> one >> which starts from the same place but takes all available space, after it >> you >> can boot guest (in single mode) and run resize2fs. >> 2. Boot VM from any 3-party (LiveCD or any) with access to virtual disk, >> and >> do the same: in fdisk delete existing partition, create new one and run >> resize2fs on it. Or just use parted to do it in one command. > > 3. You can repartition from the guest itself > Do as in 2. After saving the new partition table fdisk will probably > request a reboot for using the new table. reboot, then resize the fs. > > -- > Kind Regards, Markus Falb > Thanks to everyone that replied. Ed gave me the right clue that I was missing (and is apparently missing in a lot of the how-to's that I reviewed which only said to expand the LV, then expand the filesystem). I had to expand the partition before expanding the filesystem. So for my solution I rebooted that particular VM using SystemRescue LiveCD, then started GParted and expanded the partition which also expanded the filesystem in a single step. Then rebooted using the VM's image and #df -h now shows the expanded LV and a file system on the full space. Jeff _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
