Increasing
the space of active img file
To
increase the space of live img file of xen VM image
.By this method
there will be no loss of data and no
re format is required .
Here
in VM image sixe of /dev/xvdb will increase from 49 GB to 58GB
Now
[root@VMIMAGE1
data]# df -h
Filesystem
Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda2
9.4G 3.2G 6.2G 35% /
/dev/xvda1
99M 13M 82M 13% /boot
tmpfs
1.0G 0 1.0G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/xvdb
49G 35G 11G 77% /data
1.
Stop the VM image
root@VMSERVER:
xm destroy <ID>
2.Increase
the size of img file
using
qemu-img
-rw-r--r--
1 root root 52428800000 Dec 14 06:08 data.img
root
@VMSERVER : qemu-img resize data.img +10G
e
Image
resized.
-rw-r--r--
1 root root 63166218240 Dec 14 06:44 data.img
3.Resize
it using resize2fs
root
@VMSERVER : resize2fs -f data.imgResizing the filesystem on data.img to 15421440 (4k) blocks.
The filesystem on data.img is now 15421440 blocks long.
4.Reboot
the VM image .
5.check
the size of the drive
df
-h
Filesystem
Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda2
9.4G 3.2G 6.2G 35% /
/dev/xvda1
99M 13M 82M 13% /boot
tmpfs
1.0G 0 1.0G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/xvdb
58G 35G 21G 64% /data
[oracle@VMIMAGE
~]$ cd /data/
[oracle@
VMIMAGE data]$ ls -l
total
2104844
drwxr-xr-x
3 oracle oinstall 4096 Feb 27 2014 10g
