[ale] Xen Server adding a virtual disk to a VM

[allen at ua.edu (Beddingfield, Allen)]

If you are talking about inside of a Linux VM, "lvmdiskscan" will usually show you all block devices in a clean list.  Otherwise, there is always "fdisk -l".  If you are talking about a disk exposed to XenServer itself, it is easiest to turn that into a storage repo in the XenCenter gui.

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Allen Beddingfield
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On 10/13/16, 3:09 PM, "ale-bounces at ale.org on behalf of Scott Plante" <ale-bounces at ale.org on behalf of splante at insightsys.com> wrote:

    
    Hi, I actually know how to add a virtual disk to a VM, but once it's added, how are you supposed to know the device name so you can partition, create a filesystem, and mount it?
    
    
    I usually do this guessing-game where I do "ls /dev/xvd*" and "mount|grep xvd" and try to find what's missing, but this doesn't seem like the best way. Can you find out somehow from the xe command?
    
    
    Scott