Just a thought - as i do this very frequently. If you are using LVM on your ROOT partition - you dont need to power it on via Live CD.
It can all be done online while the system running. On 8/3/17 6:40 AM, Imran Ahmed wrote: > Hi Erik, > > Thanks for suggestion, I tried this too and was successful till lvextending > the logical volume. However at the stage of running resize2fs it produced > errors like : Bad super block..." so I ended up installing from an ISO and > partitioning without LVM this time so that I could use this template to > resize in future. > > Cheers, > > Imran > > -----Original Message----- > From: Erik Weber [mailto:terbol...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2017 3:56 PM > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: Instance with a larger disk size then Template > > A faster approach than those mentioned is to create a new partition on > the unused disk space, and add it to the volume group, then use > lvextend and resizing the fs. > > On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Imran Ahmed <im...@eaxiom.net> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I am creating an instance with a 300GB disk from a CentOS 7 template that >> has 5GB disk (LVM Based). >> The issue is that the root LVM partition inside the new VM instance still >> shows 5GB . >> >> The device size (/dev/vda) however shows 300GB. The question is what is >> the best strategy to resize the root LVM partition so that I could use all >> 300G. >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Imran >> >
