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uberVU - social comments — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:24:27 +0000

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By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:18:58 +0000

Thanks and right back at you Matt. I am going to need to spend a little time playing with ExtPart

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:00:04 +0000

I wrote up a blog post on how to expand boot volumes using ExtPart from Dell. You can check it out here:

http://blogs.kraftkennedy.com/index.php/2009/06/30/expand-virtual-machine-boot-volumes-with-no-downtime/

Nice article, Steve!

By: Christian Mohn

Christian Mohn — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:32:25 +0000

I posted a small article about how to use GParted to achive this a while ago: Howto: Expand VM boot partition. From what I hear, the ExtPart utility will let you do this inside a running VM, but I haven’t tested that yet.

By: TristanTodd

TristanTodd — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:06:42 +0000

I’ve found that using Converter to perform a “hot” V2V conversion is a completely reliable way to resize volumes. It allows for a pretty solid path of retreat.

In the past I’ve used diskpart and gparted but found that it can be easy to make a mistake. The Converter method seems rather bulletproof.

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