Hi, let me first describe my setup (and you can also give me arguments if there are better ways to achieve that) first:
I'm running a virtualization host using libvirt/kvm/qemu on openSUSE Leap 42.1. The host system is based on LVM and when I create guests I always create one LV for every mountpoint I'm using within the guest. (like /dev/system/GUEST_root, /dev/system/GUEST_var) >From within the guest I just create one primary partition on those virtual disk. I basically do it this way because I did it with Xen since quite some time that way because it gave me rather easy possibilities to grow partitions w/o using LVM also within the guest. Now I'm struggling with resizing/growing certain virtual disks/partitions though. I'll explain what I'm doing and if you know better ways just let me know: - on the host: lvresize -L+10G /dev/system/GUEST_var - on the host: parted /dev/system/GUEST_VAR ; (print free); resize 1 XGB Now my LV and partition should be resized - on the guest: try to just do "resize2fs" (my default FS is ext4) This fails because the guest does not know about the changed partition table. I tried several recommendations like - partprobe - rescan-scsi-bus.sh without success. I also finally rebooted the guest (no stop/start but "reboot" command). Still the size of the partition listed by fdisk the the previous smaller one. What do I need to do to let the guest know about the changed partition table? I would expect at least non-root FS can be changed online. If a "reboot" is not enough, would stop/start fix it? (This is a production machine. I cannot easily test that w/o further maintenance windows.) How do others handle that usecase? Is there an easier/better way to manage filesystem sizes online? Thanks, Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-virtual+unsubscr...@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-virtual+ow...@opensuse.org
