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    Fedora on XenServer VM - Expand primary Partition

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    • DustinB3403D
      DustinB3403
      last edited by

      So this is what vgdisplay reports0_1459530007856_XenCenterMain_2016-04-01_12-59-33.png

      Which appears it only has 1 PE available.

      Which how does this make sense?

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      • stacksofplatesS
        stacksofplates
        last edited by

        What does fdisk -l show?

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        • DustinB3403D
          DustinB3403
          last edited by

          Performing

          vgextend fedora /dev/xvda2 
          

          results in

          "Physical volume '/dev/xvda2" is already in volume group 'fedora' unable to add physical volume to '/dev/xvda2' to volume group 'fedora' "
          
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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403
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            0_1459530217565_XenCenterMain_2016-04-01_13-03-28.png

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            • DustinB3403D
              DustinB3403
              last edited by

              It's as if adding the storage to the VHD is expanding the wrong partition.

              0_1459530316866_XenCenterMain_2016-04-01_13-04-53.png

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              • stacksofplatesS
                stacksofplates @DustinB3403
                last edited by

                @DustinB3403 said:

                It's as if adding the storage to the VHD is expanding the wrong partition.

                0_1459530316866_XenCenterMain_2016-04-01_13-04-53.png

                Increasing the VHD increases the physical disk. Then you need to increase the physical volume with pvresize then extend the volume group with vgextend then the logical volume with lvextend.

                You may need to recreate the physical partition with fdisk. I didn't think you had to with the VHD but you might need to.

                You would run

                fdisk /dev/xvda
                

                Then delete the 2nd partition and recreate it spanning the whole disk. Then expand the logical volume.

                To do that on a root volume you would need to boot with a recovery disk.

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                • stacksofplatesS
                  stacksofplates
                  last edited by stacksofplates

                  I can't test it right now or I would be able to confirm you would need to recreate the xvda2 partition or not.

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                  • stacksofplatesS
                    stacksofplates
                    last edited by

                    So looks like you will need to take the root partition offline. Another option is to create a third partition with fdisk.

                    fdisk /dev/xvda
                    

                    Then go through the menu to create a third partition that fills up the rest of the disk

                    Then run vgextend /dev/xvda3

                    Check the PEs with vgdisplay

                    Then run lvextend -l 100%FREE (or the extent size) /dev/mapper/fedora-root (or /dev/fedora/root)

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                    • DustinB3403D
                      DustinB3403
                      last edited by

                      fdisk /dev/xvda2

                      and 'p'
                      0_1459532049564_upload-f2fbfadc-5f0e-4a36-9128-ed2f6fa85a19

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        part of thei ssue is partitions needing to be resized. You either have to grow the right partition which is often not an option or you need to let LVM handle it. In this case, just make a new partition, use pvcreate to add it under LVM, add it to the existing volume group then grow things as before.

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                        • DustinB3403D
                          DustinB3403
                          last edited by DustinB3403

                          So as a follow up to what @johnhooks and I were working on. This is what I have. (Had to revert as something broke) This VM only has 1 VHD. Of which I'd like to either expand the boot partition, or create a new partition and then allow it to be used by the primary.

                          0_1459542801972_XenCenterMain_2016-04-01_16-33-12.png

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                          • DustinB3403D
                            DustinB3403
                            last edited by

                            In a LiveCD now and this is what Parted has.

                            0_1459543299525_XenCenterMain_2016-04-01_16-41-26.png

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                            • stacksofplatesS
                              stacksofplates @scottalanmiller
                              last edited by stacksofplates

                              @scottalanmiller said:

                              part of thei ssue is partitions needing to be resized. You either have to grow the right partition which is often not an option or you need to let LVM handle it. In this case, just make a new partition, use pvcreate to add it under LVM, add it to the existing volume group then grow things as before.

                              For some reason I thought I resized a disk and live root volume on a VM before. I guess I was dreaming.

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                              • stacksofplatesS
                                stacksofplates
                                last edited by

                                @DustinB3403 did you resolve the issue where it wouldn't let you create another primary partition?

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @stacksofplates
                                  last edited by

                                  @johnhooks said:

                                  @scottalanmiller said:

                                  part of thei ssue is partitions needing to be resized. You either have to grow the right partition which is often not an option or you need to let LVM handle it. In this case, just make a new partition, use pvcreate to add it under LVM, add it to the existing volume group then grow things as before.

                                  For some reason I thought I resized a disk and live root volume on a VM before. I guess I was dreaming.

                                  that it is a VM really isn't part of the equation 🙂

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                                  • DustinB3403D
                                    DustinB3403 @stacksofplates
                                    last edited by

                                    @johnhooks no I tried again with Scott's help. I might just stand up a new fog server with a larger primary and go with that if it becomes an issues. (More than it is)

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                                    • coliverC
                                      coliver
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                                      My guess is that you are filling up the images location? Why not create a new drive with a large enough capacity and move the images over to it?

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                                      • DustinB3403D
                                        DustinB3403 @coliver
                                        last edited by

                                        @coliver yeah I am, but I didn't want to deal with the individual directories and moving the images etc. within fog.

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller
                                          last edited by

                                          Just make a new partition, don't worry about extending the existing one.

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