Ok Rich, I'm going to test your tools and add it in the workflow if available on the host.
s. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjo...@redhat.com> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 8:13:57 AM Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] bp proposal: libvirt-resize-disk-down On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 02:59:45PM +0000, sahid wrote: > Greetings, > > A blueprint is being discussed about the disk resize down feature of libvirt > driver. > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/libvirt-resize-disk-down > > The current implementation does not handle disk resize down and just skips the > step during a resize down of the instance. I'm really convinced we can > implement > this feature by using the good job of disk resize down of the driver xenapi. resize2fs -M is problematic as another reply mentions. virt-sparsify is designed to handle this case properly. It currently works by copying the disk image, but it should soon work in-place too (waiting on some qemu command line changes). And incidentally, virt-resize can handle the offline growing case well too. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev