Thanks for the Respose. <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <<a href="mailto:rjones@redhat.com">rjones@redhat.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 01:48:04PM +0530, vipul borikar wrote: > Hello, > I am running xen with libvirt. I have an image(Fedora12) with xen > para virt and run with the help of libvirt. > So i wanted to increase the size of this image from 1GB to 2 GB. > > > I am using virt-resize command for this. > > When i do : virt-list-partitions it displays 2 partitions 1] /dev/sda1 > and 2] /dev/sda2 > > I want to resize this to 2 gb > > So i do like this: virt-resize --expand /dev/sda1 Fedora12 Fedora12-1 </div>This looks fine, but what is 'Fedora12-1'? It's presumably a raw disk file. What is its size? What command did you use to create the file? </blockquote><div> I created Fedora12-1 using this command dd if=/dev/zero of=Fedora12-1 bs=1024k count=2000 it is 2gb disk. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Also please show the full messages that virt-resize printed when you ran the command. </blockquote><div> Debug messages show like this: *********************************************** Fedora12 size 1048576000 bytes Fedora12-1 size 2097152000 bytes copying boot loader ... add_drive_ro "Fedora12" add_drive "Fedora12-1" launch Warning: No DNS servers found Could not open '/dev/kqemu' - QEMU acceleration layer not activated: No such file or directory blockdev_getss "/dev/sdb" part_list "/dev/sda" part_get_bootable "/dev/sda" 1 part_get_mbr_id "/dev/sda" 1 part_get_bootable "/dev/sda" 2 part_get_mbr_id "/dev/sda" 2 pvs_full vfs_type "/dev/sda1" mount_ro "/dev/sda1" "/" statvfs "/" umount_all vfs_type "/dev/sda2" mount_ro "/dev/sda2" "/" umount_all partitions found: /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2 /dev/sda1: bootable = 1 fssize = 928866304 mbr_id = 131 name = /dev/sda1 part_end = 943750655 part_num = 1 part_size = 943718400 part_start = 32256 type = ext3 /dev/sda2: bootable = 0 fssize = undef mbr_id = 130 name = /dev/sda2 part_end = 996179455 part_num = 2 part_size = 52428800 part_start = 943750656 type = swap surplus before --expand or --shrink: 1098776576 (1.0G) Summary of changes: /dev/sda1: partition will be resized from 900.0M to 1.9G /dev/sda2: partition will be left alone part_get_parttype "/dev/sdb" partition table type: msdos list_partitions part_del "/dev/sdb" 2 part_del "/dev/sdb" 1 starting to partition from 64 part_add "/dev/sdb" "primary" 64 3989311 part_set_bootable "/dev/sdb" 1 true part_set_mbr_id "/dev/sdb" 1 131 part_add "/dev/sdb" "primary" 3989312 4091711 part_set_mbr_id "/dev/sdb" 2 130 copy_size "/dev/sda1" "/dev/sdb1" 943718400 copy_size "/dev/sda2" "/dev/sdb2" 52428800 umount_all sync kill_subprocess ********************************************************************* </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im"> > Actually from outside its sda1 partition but sincce it is para virt it show > xvda1 after VM boot up which still shows old size. </div>This doesn't matter. Also make sure you're booting with the new image file, not the old one ... </blockquote><div> Yes i am sure i am booting with new Image file. One more thing i am able to boot the new image but not able to mount it. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Rich. </blockquote><div> Thanks Vipul </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat <a href="http://people.redhat.com/%7Erjones" target="_blank">http://people.redhat.com/~rjones</a> Read my programming blog: <a href="http://rwmj.wordpress.com" target="_blank">http://rwmj.wordpress.com</a> Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) <a href="http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora" target="_blank">http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora</a> </blockquote></div>