[ale] partition size increase, using commandline, while VM running - HowTo ?

[jdp at algoloma.com (JD)]

What is the file system on the extra storage?  If ext2/3/4, then resize2fs can
work. If LVM, there are other steps needed first.

btrfs man page? Isn't easier management THE reason for it?  Google found:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E37355/html/ol_use_case2_btrfs.html
Did that not work (assuming btrfs)?

I must be misunderstanding something.

On 03/02/2014 01:29 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> Friends:
> 
> Here is a situation in the office VM.
> 
> My office folks use SLES 11SP2 and an Suse Studio iso is available(It is a raw
> image).  I mount the iso and startup the Virtualbox.
> 
> This creates the working VM in a few minutes automatically(great thing but less
> control for me)
> 
> The harddisk assigned from VirtualBox is 21GB(by me)
> 
> The after effect of getting VM automatically done is that it creates a btrfs and
> the partition size gets squeezed to  4.1GB even though 21GB was allocated.
> 
> What I am doing now, after VM is created, I mount GParted and resize the 4.1GB
> to the full available size of 21GB.
> 
> It is not hard to it with GParted, but I prefer to use a quick script that can
> resize the partition, while the VM is running and then force reboot for the new
> size to take it.
> 
> Any inputs of partition resize from command line while VM is running.
>