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Re: [Xen-users] growing file systems


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  • From: Brock Palen <brockp@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:20:11 -0400
  • Delivery-date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:22:02 -0700
  • List-id: Xen user discussion <xen-users.lists.xensource.com>

sfdisk --re-read /dev/hdb

gave me this:
sfdisk: cannot open /dev/hdb for reading

I was forced to reboot the domU and rerun xfs_growfs and it worked fine. Though this is much less than optimal. and half the reason i use xfs :(

anyone else know of a reliable live filesystem grower ?

Brock Palen
Center for Advanced Computing
brockp@xxxxxxxxx
(734)936-1985


On Jun 29, 2006, at 11:01 AM, Jan Philipp Giel wrote:

Am Donnerstag 29 Juni 2006 16:34 schrieb Brock Palen:
Has anyone seen a problem with growing file systems in domU's with
xfs?  I use LVM for my volumes.  i grew the volume in dom0 with
'lvextend -L +10G /dev/noraid/bacdumps'

in the domU i run  'xfs_growfs /path/to/mounted/fs'

lvs in dom0 says the volume is larger.
bacdumps    noraid -wi-ao  25.00G

but xfs_growfs prints out info of the old size (15 GB)

bsize=4096   blocks=3932160

and 'df' in the domU shows the same results only 15GB,   i dont have
this problem on non xen machines.  Any thoughts ?

Could it be that your domU kernel has to re-read the partition table? Maybe the domU kernel does not know that you have resized the "partition" but the
dom0 kernel does (because you used lvextend in there).

sfdisk --re-read

should make your kernel reread the partition table (if you have sfdisk...).

Regards
Philipp

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