Goal: To add new larger disk to LVM, move data and remove old smaller one
When using Oracle VM in my work, a disk can be enlarged in Oracle VM manager for a virtual machine. But because of an internal loop-mount on the XEN hypervisor level, the disk-file which is presented to the virtual machine as a disk, is not able to ‘pass on’ it’s resize information to the OS. This requires an unmount and mount of the disk-file on hypervisor level, or in simple words: a reboot of the virtual machine… yikes! Continue reading