I was able to use truncate -s 40G lun1.img and after restarting the iscsitarget service Windows saw the larger disk. It works pretty well and it's fast. Thanks for the help!
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Edward Ned Harvey <b...@nedharvey.com> wrote: >> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey....@blu.org [mailto:discuss- >> bounces+blu=nedharvey....@blu.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Kowalski >> >> I was able to create a 20GB file with: >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=lun1.img bs=1024k count=20000 >> >> I can then mount that iSCSI target on my Windows 7 machine and see an >> unallocated disk which I can format and use. My question is how do I >> expand the lun1.img file to grow the target to say 40GB, etc? > > Be sure to test this on a 1Mb file before doing it on something you care > about, but ... > > dd if=/dev/zero of=lun1.img bs=1024k skip=20000 count=35000 > or > dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=15000 >> lun1.img > > I'm not sure how well windows will handle the live expansion of the disk. I > suggest doing it while windows is offline, and then run diskmgmt again on > windows to expand your partition. > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
