As to older style partitions, this feature has been added in RHEL 7 current release with a feature request (RFE has been filed to add support for online resizing of disk partitions to RHEL 7 in private RHBZ#853105. With this feature, it's possible to resize the disk partitions online in...
CentOS / RHEL : Resize (extend) non-root EXT3/4 filesystem on non-LVM device (hard disk partition) Feasibility of filesystem resize (extend) The underlying device (partition in our case) upon which an EXT3/4 filesystem resides must first be resized before the filesystem can be resized...
We can expand guests automatically, but virt-resize is much more conservative about the complex business of shrinking guests. You have to first use guestfish on (a copy of) the original disk to manually shrink the content of the partitions you want to shrink. In this case I manually shrink...
Linux - Resize-Extend a disk partition with unallocated space (CentOS, Ubuntu, VM)How to resize/extend a disk partition, logical volume and filesystem of a CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian Linux VM using built-in tools and without the need of a reboot ...
The simplest way to support this in your image is to install the cloud-utils package (contains the growpart tool for extending partitions), the cloud-initramfs-growroot package (which supports resizing root partition on the first boot), and the cloud-init package into your image. With these ...
5.el6 Found this section in virt-resize man page " WINDOWS CHKDSK Windows disks which use NTFS must be consistent before virt-resize can be used. If the ntfsresize operation fails, try booting the original VM and running "chkdsk /f" on all NTFS partitions, then shut down the VM cleanly...
In RHEL 6, it will only trigger the OS to update the partitions on a disk that none of its partitions are in use (e.g. mounted). If any partition on a disk is in use, partprobe will not trigger the OS to update partitions in the system because it is considered unsafe in some ...
The simplest way to support this in your image is to install the cloud-utils package (contains the growpart tool for extending partitions), the cloud-initramfs-growroot package (which supports resizing root partition on the first boot), and the cloud-init package into your image. With these ...