results, shut the virtual machine down before resizing it.
If you are not familiar with the associated tools:
-L<virt-list-partitions(1)>,
-L<virt-list-filesystems(1)> and
-L<virt-df(1)>,
-we recommend you go and read those manual pages first.
+L<virt-filesystems(1)> and L<virt-df(1)>, we recommend you go and read
+those manual pages first.
=head1 EXAMPLES
to fill the extra 5GB of space.
truncate -r olddisk newdisk; truncate -s +5G newdisk
- virt-list-partitions -lht olddisk
+ virt-filesystems --long --h --all -a olddisk
# Note "/dev/sda2" is a partition inside the "olddisk" file.
virt-resize --expand /dev/sda2 olddisk newdisk
=item 3. Look at current sizing
-Use L<virt-list-partitions(1)> to display the current partitions and
+Use L<virt-filesystems(1)> to display the current partitions and
sizes:
- # virt-list-partitions -lht /dev/vg/lv_guest
- /dev/sda1 ext3 101.9M
- /dev/sda2 pv 7.9G
- /dev/sda device 8.0G
+ # virt-filesystems --long --parts --blkdevs -h -a /dev/vg/lv_guest
+ Name Type Size Parent
+ /dev/sda1 partition 101M /dev/sda
+ /dev/sda2 partition 7.9G /dev/sda
+ /dev/sda device 8.0G -
(This example is a virtual machine with an 8 GB disk which we would
like to expand up to 10 GB).
equivalent of calling a command such as L<pvresize(8)>,
L<resize2fs(8)> or L<ntfsresize(8)>. However virt-resize does not
know how to resize some filesystems, so you would have to online
-resize them after booting the guest. And virt-resize also does not
-resize anything inside an LVM PV, it just resizes the PV itself and
-leaves the user to resize any LVs inside that PV as desired.
+resize them after booting the guest.
Other options are covered below.
=item *
-LVM PVs (physical volumes). However virt-resize does I<not>
-resize anything inside the PV. The user will have to resize
-LVs as desired.
+LVM PVs (physical volumes). virt-resize does not usually resize
+anything inside the PV, but see the C<--LV-expand> option. The user
+could also resize LVs as desired after boot.
=back
that. You can stop virt-resize from trying to expand the content by
using the option C<--no-expand-content>.
-Use L<virt-list-filesystems(1)> to list the filesystems in
+Use L<virt-filesystems(1)> to list the filesystems in
the guest.
You can give this option multiple times, I<but> it doesn't
=head1 SEE ALSO
-L<virt-list-partitions(1)>,
-L<virt-list-filesystems(1)>,
+L<virt-filesystems(1)>,
L<virt-df(1)>,
L<guestfs(3)>,
L<guestfish(1)>,