From: Richard Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 10:45:23 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: resize: Refresh the examples in the documentation.
X-Git-Tag: 1.2.9~25
X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=51c6cc6081e2ca760e0fb4cf7cc11872f27fae3a;p=libguestfs.git

resize: Refresh the examples in the documentation.

The documentation was previously very intimidating.  Bring some
common, simple examples up to the top of the page in a separate
section.

For stable-1.2 branch:
 - cherry picked from commit 0e28e4104d96bf0bf5b88fb07bb7e5f9f6e6f41f
 - modified instructions slightly to apply to older version of
   virt-list-partitions
 - replace 'truncate' with 'dd'
---

diff --git a/tools/virt-resize b/tools/virt-resize
index 7ee3f27..e89564f 100755
--- a/tools/virt-resize
+++ b/tools/virt-resize
@@ -60,7 +60,23 @@ L<virt-list-filesystems(1)> and
 L<virt-df(1)>,
 we recommend you go and read those manual pages first.
 
-=head2 BASIC USAGE
+=head2 EXAMPLES
+
+Copy C<olddisk> to C<newdisk>, extending one of the guest's partitions
+to fill the extra 5GB of space.
+
+ virt-list-partitions -lh olddisk
+ # Make a new blank disk which is larger than the old disk file.
+ dd if=/dev/zero of=newdisk bs=1024k count=15000
+ # Note "/dev/sda2" is a partition inside the "olddisk" file.
+ virt-resize --expand /dev/sda2 olddisk newdisk
+
+As above, but make the /boot partition 200MB bigger, while giving the
+remaining space to /dev/sda2:
+
+ virt-resize --resize /dev/sda1=+200M --expand /dev/sda2 olddisk newdisk
+
+=head2 DETAILED USAGE
 
 This describes the common case where you want to expand an image to
 give your guest more space.  Shrinking images is considerably more