Re: [Libguestfs] virt-resize

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Nikita A Menkovich wrote: >You can write to UFS. It is rather safe. But you could not make a >resize of ufs filesystem on Linux. There is not utilities for this. > >On 25 June 2012 18:53, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >>On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 09:04:26AM -0500, Dan The Man wrote: >>> >>> >>>On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Nikita A Menkovich wrote: >>> >>>>For now, UFS in Linux do not support resizing at all. There is only >>>>one way to resize: create new image, partition, attach to existing >>>>freebsd, install bootloader, sync files. >>> >>> >>>Don't think guestmount even supports ufs even if it is enabled either: >>>Did a quick download of this read only ufs module: rpm -i >>>kmod-ufs-0.0-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm >>> >>>cappy:~# modprobe ufs >> >>After downloading a kmod, you need to rebuild the libguestfs >>appliance.  Just do: >> >> rm -rf /var/tmp/.guestfs-* Tried this but still got ufs unknown type ufs error.

cappy:~# guestmount -a /dev/virtual/centos -m /dev/sda1:/ /centos cappy:~# umount /centos cappy:~# guestmount -a /dev/virtual/centos -m /dev/sda1:/:ro /centos libguestfs: error: mount_options: you must mount something on / first guestmount: '/dev/sda1' could not be mounted. Did you mean one of these? /dev/vda1 (ext4) /dev/virtual/root (ext4) /dev/virtual/swap (swap) cappy:~# Just trying to pass a simple "ro" option, can't seem to get it to take any option even on a simple /boot mount on sda1?