Re-sizingYourDomU

This howto has been tested on Debian Lenny running DTC-Xen. Replace values in the "< >" with your values.

In your Dom0, shut down your guest VM.

     xm shutdown <vmName>

Then specify the new size

     lvresize -L<Size>G /dev/<nameofyourvg>/<vmName>

Now check the file system

     fsck.ext3 -f /dev/<nameofyourvg>/<vmName>

If all is fine, re-size the filesystem

     resize2fs /dev/<nameofyourvg>/<vmName>

All done! Now restart the VM

     xm create <vmName>


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