Sorry, I should have been more clear. When you create the domU, you need to give it an LVM logical volume. As far as the domU is concerned, it's just a disk. But from the dom0 side, it's an easily expandible partition. After you grow it, use tools on the domU side to expand the filesystem.
There's really no point in trying to expand a swap partition because you can just make another one.
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Chris Hirsch wrote:
Ben wrote:
Yeah, you use LVM and grow you logical volume size, then expand it in the guest domain. I'm not sure, but I suspect you'd have to restart your guest before you can expand it.
But isn't the xvda just a file containing partitions and the like? I've actually been wanting to do this myself WITH LVM. I'd LOVE to have lvm extend the file itself.
I did find the trick extending an image: dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=3500000 >> fedora.fc5.img resize2fs -f fedora.fc5.img
and thats works great...The way I understand the xvda file is that you'd have to copy out anything that is after the main image resize the image (like above) and then append the old stuff back to the end of the disk. I'd assume "stuff" here to mean something like swap.
Chris