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From: "Bryn M. Reeves" <bmr@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] how to enlarge a logical volume that is a virtual disk	of a virtual machine that uses lvm too?
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:05:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B50610.3020600@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49B23E93.6090004@alexbrett.net>

Alex Brett wrote:
> I'm not sure if you could do it online or not (I can't see any
> reason why not, but there may be issues), but you should just be
> able to resize the LV (lvresize) in dom0 (obviously make sure you
> enlarge it, not shrink it), then do a pvresize in the VM to enlarge
> the PV to use all

Depending on the type of device and whether it is partitioned or not
it may not be possible to have the guest recognise the new size of the
device without a reboot.

Regards,
Bryn.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-09 12:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-07  3:11 [linux-lvm] how to enlarge a logical volume that is a virtual disk of a virtual machine that uses lvm too? Ricardo Funke Ormieres
2009-03-07  9:29 ` Alex Brett
2009-03-07 15:51   ` Ricardo Funke Ormieres
2009-03-09 12:05   ` Bryn M. Reeves [this message]

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