Hi all! Is it possible to resize the partition of a KVM virtual machine without it is down? With Xen PV virtual machines, I get this by umounting the filesystem on the VM, detaching the device and then resizing the logical volume and file system in the VMHost. Finally, I attach the device and mount the filesystem on virtual machine. All this without the VM is down. The procedure that I am using at the moment to resizing a partition in a KVM virtual machine is the following one: * Shutdown the VM. * Resize the logical volume which is the partition to resize. * Boot a KVM VM with PartedMagic [1] and to extend the partition until it has the wished size using GParted. * Shutdown the KVM VM with PartedMagic. * Boot the VM with the new partition size. There is some more efficient way to do it? Thanks in advance for your replies. Regards, Daniel [1] http://partedmagic.com/ -- Fingerprint: BFB3 08D6 B4D1 31B2 72B9 29CE 6696 BF1B 14E6 1D37 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Lenny - Linux user #188.598
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