[ale] partition size increase, using commandline, while VM running - HowTo ?

[Narahari 'n' Savitha]

I did not think from the btrfs perspective.  I will try that approach.
 Thank You.




On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 1:51 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

> What is the file system on the extra storage?  If ext2/3/4, then resize2fs
> can
> work. If LVM, there are other steps needed first.
>
> btrfs man page? Isn't easier management THE reason for it?  Google found:
> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E37355/html/ol_use_case2_btrfs.html
> Did that not work (assuming btrfs)?
>
> I must be misunderstanding something.
>
> On 03/02/2014 01:29 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> > Friends:
> >
> > Here is a situation in the office VM.
> >
> > My office folks use SLES 11SP2 and an Suse Studio iso is available(It is
> a raw
> > image).  I mount the iso and startup the Virtualbox.
> >
> > This creates the working VM in a few minutes automatically(great thing
> but less
> > control for me)
> >
> > The harddisk assigned from VirtualBox is 21GB(by me)
> >
> > The after effect of getting VM automatically done is that it creates a
> btrfs and
> > the partition size gets squeezed to  4.1GB even though 21GB was
> allocated.
> >
> > What I am doing now, after VM is created, I mount GParted and resize the
> 4.1GB
> > to the full available size of 21GB.
> >
> > It is not hard to it with GParted, but I prefer to use a quick script
> that can
> > resize the partition, while the VM is running and then force reboot for
> the new
> > size to take it.
> >
> > Any inputs of partition resize from command line while VM is running.
> >
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