Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:35:38 -0400 From: "Marc G. Fournier" <freebsd@hub.org> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: QEMU: increase image size with FreeBSD partitions ... Message-ID: <1EBF6B0D0F2CD9C5E4255890@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <ghld08$e5h$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <4CF66154353CD7ABCB17FB03@ganymede.hub.org> <ghld08$e5h$1@ger.gmane.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - --On Tuesday, December 09, 2008 10:15:45 +0100 Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> >> I have FreeBSD 7 running in a QEMU VM ... works like a charm, but I'm >> wondering if there is some way of *increasing* the size of the image beyond >> what I configured it for? I'm only finding stuff pertaining to NTFS/FAT32, >> but nothing about Unix in general, or FreeBSD specifically ... >> >> Is there any way of doing this, or do I have to build a new, larger img, and >> copy the data from diskA -> diskB, and reboot on diskB? Doable, but time >> consuming ... > > I don't think there's anything automatic but you can grow the virtual > disk, then modify the last partition size by hand, then use growfs. 'k, that is what I figured, but how do I grow the virtual disk? I've checked the qemu-img man page, and there doesn't appear to be a method of doing this ... - -- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkk/KvoACgkQ4QvfyHIvDvOEfQCghv9LtctUGSuagAlFbcEoNrWu udMAnixLBpCcfwOTUVkhjep/2dQSzNaD =YjqB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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