<div dir="ltr">I did not think from the btrfs perspective. I will try that approach. Thank You.<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 1:51 PM, JD <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdp@algoloma.com" target="_blank">jdp@algoloma.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">What is the file system on the extra storage? If ext2/3/4, then resize2fs can<br>
work. If LVM, there are other steps needed first.<br>
<br>
btrfs man page? Isn't easier management THE reason for it? Google found:<br>
<a href="http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E37355/html/ol_use_case2_btrfs.html" target="_blank">http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E37355/html/ol_use_case2_btrfs.html</a><br>
Did that not work (assuming btrfs)?<br>
<br>
I must be misunderstanding something.<br>
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On 03/02/2014 01:29 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:<br>
> Friends:<br>
><br>
> Here is a situation in the office VM.<br>
><br>
> My office folks use SLES 11SP2 and an Suse Studio iso is available(It is a raw<br>
> image). I mount the iso and startup the Virtualbox.<br>
><br>
> This creates the working VM in a few minutes automatically(great thing but less<br>
> control for me)<br>
><br>
> The harddisk assigned from VirtualBox is 21GB(by me)<br>
><br>
> The after effect of getting VM automatically done is that it creates a btrfs and<br>
> the partition size gets squeezed to 4.1GB even though 21GB was allocated.<br>
><br>
> What I am doing now, after VM is created, I mount GParted and resize the 4.1GB<br>
> to the full available size of 21GB.<br>
><br>
> It is not hard to it with GParted, but I prefer to use a quick script that can<br>
> resize the partition, while the VM is running and then force reboot for the new<br>
> size to take it.<br>
><br>
> Any inputs of partition resize from command line while VM is running.<br>
><br>
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