Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH 0/4] Fixes for virt-resize

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 05:14:08PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: I should note that this won't necessarily let you do a resize: libguestfs: error: pvresize_size: /dev/vda2: /dev/vda2: cannot resize to 191 extents as later ones are allocated. It turns out that pvresize won't "defrag" physical extents, therefore it is a matter of luck whether you can shrink a PV. Reading around the issue it seems you can manually move PEs using pvmove, lvdisplay, guesswork and luck. There might be scope for a "pvdefrag" command in libguestfs at some point ... Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html