[Libguestfs] [libvirt-users] Resize errors with virt-resize/vgchange

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:32:08PM -0400, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >> Yes, here's the layout from the vm:
> >>
> >> # df -h
> >> Filesystem                Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> >> devtmpfs                  7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /dev
> >> tmpfs                     7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /dev/shm
> >> tmpfs                     7.9G  643M  7.3G   9% /run
> >> tmpfs                     7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> >> /dev/mapper/prop-root      15G   11G  2.9G  79% /
> >> tmpfs                     7.9G   12K  7.9G   1% /tmp
> >> /dev/mapper/prop-boot     477M   95M  358M  21% /boot
> >> /dev/mapper/prop-home     222G  215G  7.6G  97% /home
> >>
> >> I'll add this info to the bug report.
> >
> > Just to be clear, it has multiple virtual block devices, eg.
> > /dev/vda and /dev/vdb ...?
> >
> > This isn't (currently) a supported configuration for virt-resize,
> > although it ought to be.
> 
> Yes, that's correct - vda and vdb. Not sure how I missed that previously.
> 
> Can I perform the steps that virt-resize executes manually instead,
> and either perform it only on the one to be resized or otherwise
> adjust the arguments accordingly? Is it documented?

No; virt-resize has to be changed to work with multiple disks.  There
is no workaround.

Rich.

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