[Libguestfs] Image Not Expanding

[vipul borikar]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 05:30:07PM +0530, vipul borikar wrote:
> > fdisk -l gives like this
> >
> > [root at localhost ~]# fdisk -l
> >
> > Disk /dev/xvda: 2097 MB, 2097152000 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 254 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> > Disk identifier: 0x000dada5
> >
> >     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/xvda1   *           1         249     1994624   83  Linux
> > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> > /dev/xvda2             249         255       51200   82  Linux swap /
> > Solaris
> > Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> > [root at localhost ~]# df -h
> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/xvda1            886M  684M  158M  82% /
> > tmpfs                 263M     0  263M   0% /dev/shm
> >
> >
> > It looks like it has increased the disk size.
> >
> > but df shows old size
> >
> > [root at localhost ~]# df -h
> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/xvda1          886M  684M  158M  82% /
> > tmpfs                 263M     0  263M   0% /dev/shm
> >
> >
> > Do we have to manually do something inside the VM .
>
> Oh right, I see.  Are you using an ancient version of virt-resize
> (ie. 1.2.<something>)?
>

I am using 1.2.14 version CentOS rpms  .

>
> For these very old versions of virt-resize you do need to manually
> expand the filesystem inside the VM.  Just do:
>
>  resize2fs /dev/xvda1
>

Done . It worked.

>
> In more recent versions of virt-resize, virt-resize itself does this
> automatically.
>
> > Grub is having no problem at all it works fine only that i am not able to
> > mount it:
> >
> > mount -o loop,offset=32256 Fedora12-1 /mnt/disk1/
> >
> >     mount: you must specify the filesystem type
>
> Not sure what you're trying to do, but try using guestfish:
>
>  guestfish --ro -i Fedora12-1
>
> Rich.
>
>
Thank u very much for the response.

I will try with never versions also.

Thanks
Vipul
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