On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 10:07 +0000, john maclean wrote:> Ah,
> Thanks for this. I''ve only been sticking to file-based images as
this
> is the only method that I can get working relatively quickly from a
> clean install.
>
> OK check this out:-
> df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda3 9.2G 3.3G 5.5G 37% /
> tmpfs 502M 0 502M 0% /lib/init/rw
> udev 10M 44K 10M 1% /dev
> tmpfs 502M 0 502M 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda1 92M 31M 56M 36% /boot
> /dev/hda5 28G 18G 9.0G 66% /home
> /dev/hda6 72G 26G 42G 39% /vz # << Used for
file-based domUs
Ok, so did the available % of hda6 increase after you altered the file
images?
> If I had /dev/hda6 as LVM,
> a) Do I have something like :disk = [
''phy:/vz/alpha/bxvm.img,sda1,w'',
> ''phy:/vz/alpha/bxvm.swap,sda2,w'']?
I wouldn''t use a ''.'' in the names of the logical
volumes but yes that''s
pretty much it. I name mine so the name of the lv is meaningful, i.e.
/dev/shelf3/gnuxenlinux-xenu-sda1 , is the LV for sda1 for the dom-u
gnuxenlinux. Or you can even make symlinks to lv''s and specify just the
symlink if it makes it simpler.
> I''ve never been able to get the LVM''ed instances going
:-/
> Thanks alot for your time!
Hopefully you can get LVM working and all of this becomes much much
simpler.
Best,
--Tim
>
>
> On 03/06/07, Tim Post <tim.post@gridnix.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 02:34 +0000, john maclean wrote:
> > > Used the principles from here
http://jailtime.org/howto:filesystem to
> > > resize some file-based domUs. Everything''s Ok but
I''ve rebooted to a
> > > new kernel and notice that `ls -alh /path/to/images` still shows
the
> > > original sizes of the domUs.
> >
> > When you use a file backed BD (especially as a sparse file) it will
> > always claim the original size unless of course it becomes bigger.
This
> > does not mean that its the size LS is reporting it to be.
> >
> > Try looking at the output of ''du -h'' noticing the
partition containing
> > the file backed BD''s then compare it with the output of ls.
> >
> > I really recommend using LVM over file backed block devices unless
your
> > in a position where you just can''t use LVM.
> >
> > >
> > > What gives?
> > >
> >
> > You are user 1,798,782,947,153,827,301 to be confused by this. Reality
> > has not changed, your computer has not developed a drug habit, this is
> > not a dream.
> >
> > Best,
> > --Tim
> >
> >
>
>
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