9:10 a.m.
When hitting a filesystem which we cannot or don't know how to expand,
instead of print a warning in verbose mode only, print it always when
showing the summary of the changes.
In the virt-resize documentation, add a paragraph about this warning.
---
resize/resize.ml | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------
resize/virt-resize.pod | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/resize/resize.ml b/resize/resize.ml
index 602a583..9ea5f8a 100644
--- a/resize/resize.ml
+++ b/resize/resize.ml
@@ -575,11 +575,7 @@ read the man page virt-resize(1).
| ContentFS (("ntfs"), _) when !ntfs_available -> true
| ContentFS (("btrfs"), _) when !btrfs_available -> true
| ContentFS (("xfs"), _) when !xfs_available -> true
- | ContentFS (fs, _) ->
- if verbose () then
- warning (f_"unknown/unavailable method for expanding filesystem %s")
- fs;
- false
+ | ContentFS (fs, _) -> false
| ContentExtendedPartition -> false
else
fun _ -> false
@@ -863,7 +859,17 @@ read the man page virt-resize(1).
p.p_name
(string_of_expand_content_method
(expand_content_method p.p_type))
- ) else "" in
+ ) else (
+ (match p.p_type with
+ | ContentUnknown
+ | ContentPV _
+ | ContentExtendedPartition -> ()
+ | ContentFS (fs, _) ->
+ warning (f_"unknown/unavailable method for expanding the %s
filesystem on %s")
+ fs p.p_name;
+ );
+ ""
+ ) in
wrap (text ^ "\n\n") in
@@ -883,7 +889,17 @@ read the man page virt-resize(1).
name
(string_of_expand_content_method
(expand_content_method lv.lv_type))
- ) else "" in
+ ) else (
+ (match lv.lv_type with
+ | ContentUnknown
+ | ContentPV _
+ | ContentExtendedPartition -> ()
+ | ContentFS (fs, _) ->
+ warning (f_"unknown/unavailable method for expanding the %s
filesystem on %s")
+ fs name;
+ );
+ ""
+ ) in
wrap (text ^ "\n\n")
) lvs;
diff --git a/resize/virt-resize.pod b/resize/virt-resize.pod
index d8da02f..26fd136 100644
--- a/resize/virt-resize.pod
+++ b/resize/virt-resize.pod
@@ -727,6 +727,45 @@ the disk before.
If you have to reuse a target which contains data already, you should
use the I<--no-sparse> option. Note this can be much slower.
+=head2 "unknown/unavailable method for expanding the TYPE filesystem on
DEVICE/LV"
+
+Virt-resize was asked to expand a partition or a logical volume
+containing a filesystem with the type C<TYPE>, but there is no
+available nor known expanding method for that filesystem.
+
+This may be due to either of the following:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item 1.
+
+There corresponding filesystem is not available in libguestfs,
+because there is no proper package in the host with utilities for it.
+This is usually the case for C<btrfs>, C<ntfs>, and C<xfs>
+filesystems.
+
+Check the results of:
+
+ virt-resize --machine-readable
+ guestfish -a /dev/null run : available
+ guestfish -a /dev/null run : filesystem_available TYPE
+
+In this case, it is enough to install the proper packages
+adding support for them. For example, C<libguestfs-xfs> on
+Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, and distributions
+derived from them, for supporting the C<xfs> filesystem.
+
+=item 2.
+
+Virt-resize has no support for expanding that type of filesystem.
+
+In this case, there's nothing that can be done to let virt-resize
+expand that type of filesystem.
+
+=back
+
+In both cases, virt-resize will not expand the mentioned filesystem.
+
=head1 ALTERNATIVE TOOLS
There are several proprietary tools for resizing partitions. We
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