How to Resize Xen File Based Disk VMs (EXT3 or REISER) on SLES 10 SP1
I’ve been looking to find a posting online into resizing XEN file based VMs with no luck. I was playing around this weekend and was finally able to get them resized!!!!!!! Finally.
I thought I’ll post it here if anyone is interested.
My Setup:
DOM0 = SLES 10 SP1.
VM1 = 5GIG file (non-sparse). It has 2 partitions. SWAP and REISER
VM2 = 5 GIG file (non sparse) …2 partitions SWAP and EXT3
If you have the standard SLES 10 SP1, then you most likely have parted 1.6
Download a new version of parted from their website (1.8)
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/download.shtml
To install parted you will need to have the following programs installed in YaST (The reiser stuff is just to resize the reiser partitions)………….
gcc
E2fsprogs
E2fsprogs-devel
Libreiserfs-devel
Libresierfs
reiserfs
INSTALL PARTED………..
./configure –without-readline
Make
Make install
Add size to the disks…………
Dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=5 >> disk0 (this adds 5 gigs)
Mount filesystem to local xen…………..
Xm block-attach 0 ‘file:/xen/images/disk0’ xvda w
Find partitions…………..
Fdisk –ul /dev/xvda
Should show partitions now (eg xvda1 xvda2 with sizes and type etc etc)
DO filesystem check
If ext2 or ext3 then
E2fsck –f /dev/xvda2
If reiser
Reiserfsck /dev/xvda2
Run parted now…………..
You already have the old RPM parted installed on your system. So to use the new parted type….
/usr/local/sbin/parted
To check version……..
/usr/local/sbin/parted -v
Resize Disk ………………….
/usr/local/sbin/parted /dev/xvda
Type -> Print
Select partition to resize
Pick start and stop ….usually default start
Pick stop to match new size …..eg 19000MB
Type -> q (quit)
Run another check …..check above ….depending on filesystem
Do expansion ……………
If ext2/ext3 do ………
Resize2fs /dev/xvda2
If Reiser do …….
Resize_reiser /dev/xvda2
Then detach device………
Xm block-list 0 (Look to see the ID eg 51729 )
Xm block-detach 0 “51729” –f
………..
Start your machine …check size with df –h
Daniel Seales
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Comments
Hi Daniel,
You could also install parted from the OpenSuSE Build Service.
http://software.opensuse.org/search
If you search for parted on SLES/SLED10 you’ll see someone already made a package of the 1.8 release
Bad for me, I was to slow, have same idea to post on Cool Solutions about resizing of XEN image files :o(.
In my solution I use fdisk for changing partition size, you get same result as with parted.
I don´t tried to resize Reiser, but EXT3.
When you resize EXT3, you should disable journaling :
tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/...before you do resize. And after that enable it :
tune2fs -j /dev/...It´s safer.
David
While working on this I noticed the command was wrong it errored out when I typed resize_reiser /dev/xvda2. It worked fine with resize_reiserfs /dev/xvda2.
Also this command Xm block-attach 0 ‘file:/xen/images/disk0’ xvda w when I ran the command from the pathway and just the file name it failed. Just fyi even in the directory with the disk0 I had to use the full pathway.