> Hi,
>
> Wow... I didn't know about "growpart" :)
>
> I do, however, on XenServer (now XCP-NG) almost the same thing for
> ages:
>
> - shutdown the VM
I thought we're talking about doing it online, which is quite a different
thing because rereading partition layouts isn't always working as expected
without a reboot.
Regards,
Simon
> - increase disk size on XCenter
> - boot VM on maintenance mode (with DVD boot)
> - do fdisk /dev/xvda, remove the desired partition (in your case 3),
> and recreate it with the same initial block and occupying the rest of the
> disk.
> - make what's is need to use the new space on the partition, in my
> case it's a LVM partition used as a PVE block. Than pvresize, vgextend,
> etc...
>
> Until now, no problems...
>
> Att.,
>
> Antonio.
>
>
>
>
> Em qui., 8 de abr. de 2021 às 12:44, Nicolas Kovacs <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> escreveu:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm currently fiddling with KVM, Proxmox and various VMs.
>>
>> I setup a very basic VM with a manual (fdisk) partitioning scheme: one
>> /boot
>> partition, one swap partition, and one root partition, the latter being
>> the
>> last partition and thus expandable).
>>
>> I'm starting with a reduced disk size (6 GB in total) and a minimal
>> installation. The idea behind this approach is that I can clone this
>> minimal VM
>> and then eventually expand it to fit my needs.
>>
>> Here's how I expand the available disk size.
>>
>> First I increase the virtual disk in the hypervisor.
>>
>> Then I fire up the VM and do the following:
>>
>> # yum install cloud-utils-growpart
>> # lsblk
>> # growpart -v /dev/sda 3
>> # resize2fs /dev/sda3
>>
>> Now here's my question (finally): is there any risk involved in this
>> sort
>> of
>> operation? Or can it be performed on a production system without having
>> to
>> worry about data loss?
>>
>> Cheers from the sunny South of France,
>>
>> Niki
>>
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