[Xen-users] How do I resize a Physical Partition in a Dom U that's "on" a Logical Volume in the Dom 0?

[Bob Linkonij <boblnknj0@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey all,

I'm trying to figure out how to re-size physical partitions in the Dom U.

I've read up what I can find on line and finally decided to have
Logical Volumes in the Dom 0 and pass them as physical volumes for use
in the Dom U.

Here's an example of what I'm doing.

To start in the Dom 0 I created the LV's with

lvcreate -n guest_boot -L 100M /dev/VG01
lvcreate -n guest_swap -L 512M /dev/VG01
lvcreate -n guest_root -L 4G   /dev/VG01

Then in the Dom U configuration file I added

disk=['phy:/dev/VG01/guest_boot,xvda,w','phy:/dev/VG01/guest_swap,xvdb,w','phy:/dev/VG01/guest_root,xvdc,w']

Then I set up the Dom U so

(hd0)   /dev/xvda  --------> mounts @ "/boot"
(hd1)   /dev/xvdb  --------> mounts @ "swap"
(hd2)   /dev/xvdc  --------> mounts @ "/"

So with this the Dom U gets started OK.  In the guest I see

df -H
Filesystem             Size   Used  Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvdc1             4.3G   2.1G   2.0G  51% /
udev                   543M    78k   543M   1% /dev
/dev/xvda1              82M    19M    57M  14% /boot

What I want to do now is increase the size of the Dom U's root
(/dev/xvdc) partition.  And I want to avoid losing, overwriting, or
screwing up somehow my data in the process :-)

I know the first step I have to do is increase the size of the right
LV, that matches the /dev/xvdc1 "root" partition in the Dom U, in the
Dom 0 first.  I do that with

lvextend -L +4G /dev/VG01 guest_root

Can I do that "hot" without shutting down the Dom U first?  Or do I
need to shut it down THEN do the lvextend?

The next step is what's got me confused.

The lvcreate I did first increased the size of "/dev/xvdc", but now I
need to grow or extend the "/dev/xvdc1" partition in the Dom U to fill
up to the maximum available.

Do I do that in the Dom U or in the Dom 0?  I think resize2fs needs to
be used, since I don't have a Logical Volume in the Dom U.  I just
don't know.

I'm sorry if I'm just missing what's obvious but I'm kind of confused
by the whole Logical/Physical differences in the Dom 0 and the Dom U.

Any kind of help or advice would be really appreciated a lot!

Thanks a bunch.

Bob

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