Libguestfs - Jan 2011 - Image Not Expanding

Hello,
          I am running xen with libvirt. I have an image(Fedora12) with xen
para virt and run with the help of libvirt.
So i wanted to increase the size of this image from 1GB to 2 GB.


I am using virt-resize command for this.

When  i do :  virt-list-partitions   it displays 2 partitions   1] /dev/sda1
and 2] /dev/sda2

I want to resize this to 2 gb

So i do like this:      virt-resize --expand /dev/sda1 Fedora12 Fedora12-1

The command executes successfully but when i start the VM its shows old size
of the Parttions.

Actually from outside its sda1 partition but sincce it is para virt it show
xvda1  after VM boot up which still shows old size.


Any Ideas on this ?


Thanks
Vipul
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 01:48:04PM +0530, vipul borikar
wrote:
> Hello,
>           I am running xen with libvirt. I have an image(Fedora12) with xen
> para virt and run with the help of libvirt.
> So i wanted to increase the size of this image from 1GB to 2 GB.
> 
> 
> I am using virt-resize command for this.
> 
> When  i do :  virt-list-partitions   it displays 2 partitions   1]
/dev/sda1
> and 2] /dev/sda2
> 
> I want to resize this to 2 gb
> 
> So i do like this:      virt-resize --expand /dev/sda1 Fedora12 Fedora12-1
This looks fine, but what is 'Fedora12-1'?  It's presumably a raw
disk
file.  What is its size?  What command did you use to create the file?

Also please show the full messages that virt-resize printed when you
ran the command.
> Actually from outside its sda1 partition but sincce it is para virt it show
> xvda1  after VM boot up which still shows old size.
This doesn't matter.

Also make sure you're booting with the new image file, not the old one ...

Rich.

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