[Libguestfs] libguestfs on proxmox
Keresztes Péter-Zoltán
zozo at z0z0.tk
Tue Jul 1 18:35:57 UTC 2014
Actually I have find out that the virt-resize is failing because it’s flagged for a consistency check if I run the command with —ntfsresize-force it works with no issue.
Thanks you were be very helpful, actually I would have not find this if you would not ask me to run the other method.
Keresztes Péter-Zoltán
zozo at z0z0.tk
I haven’t lost my mind, I know exactly where I left it.
On 01 Jul 2014, at 21:33, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 08:50:27PM +0300, Keresztes Péter-Zoltán wrote:
>> OK, that seam to work however it is not exactly the correct solution
>> for me since I need to make it one command to be able to call it
>> from an API
>
> Understood. What I'm trying to find out is why the ntfsresize utility
> is failing when it is being run under virt-resize, since it is not
> printing any error message but is returning a non-zero error code.
>
> By running it under virt-rescue, you can test ntfsresize and also see
> the full errors.
>
>> I have no name!@(none):/# ntfsresize /dev/sda1
>> ntfsresize v2012.1.15AR.5 (libntfs-3g)
>> ERROR: Volume is scheduled for check.
>> Run chkdsk /f and please try again, or see option -f.
>
> I think this is the problem.
>
> In virt-resize 1.20 and above you can use ``virt-resize --ntfsresize-force''
> which has the same effect as passing the -f option to ntfsresize:
>
> --ntfsresize-force
> Pass the --force option to ntfsresize(8), allowing resizing even if
> the NTFS disk is marked as needing a consistency check. You have
> to use this option if you want to resize a Windows guest multiple
> times without booting into Windows between each resize.
>
> However I am not sure if this is safe. You will have to ask the
> ntfs-3g community whether running ntfsresize on a partition that is
> marked as needing chkdsk is in fact safe, or if you are going to
> have other problems from doing this.
>
> Rich.
>
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