[Fedora-xen] enlarge file backed filesystem

[Itamar Reis Peixoto]

this is the correct way to resize


dd if=/dev/zero of=root_fs.ext3 bs=1 count=1 seek=2G conv=notrunc

e2fsck -f root_fs.ext3 -y

resize2fs -p root_fs.ext3

replace root_fs.ext3 with the filesystem name

replace 2g with new size of the filesystem image

more details here

http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/resize.html

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Itamar Reis Peixoto

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>
>> > Isn't there a way to enlarge the filesystem of the guest by enlarging 
>> > the
>> > backing file/device?  If so, what exactly do you do to enlarge the 
>> > backing
>> > file/dev?
>
> For ext3 I use (in this case adding 1GB):
>
> dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1024 >> file.image
> e2fsck -f file.image
> resize2fs file.image
> e2fsck -f file.image
>
> Paul
>