Hi Mark,

Just to add to this - if you use XenServer as the underlying hypervisor then 
yes, it can perform automatic resize of the partitions when you resize an 
instance between two flavors.

I believe you need to set auto_disk_config=True for the instance - at which 
point the expectation is that you have  a single partition and are using EXT3 
or EXT4.  See 
https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/virt/xenapi/vm_utils.py#L798 
for the technical details.

This occurs when you issue the nova command to resize an instance between the 
flavors and requires you to be running XenServer with the EXT3 SR type - see 
http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/introduction-to-xen.html
 for more details on setting up XenServer.

Thanks,

Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Chaney [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 30 August 2013 07:15
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Openstack] can instances be resized?
> 
> I am going to be hosting mainly Ubuntu, CentOS, and some Debian
> instances with my openstack "cloud". Can instances be resized when it
> comes to their storage? Obviously not only does its disk need to be
> resized, but its FS as well. I am hoping openstack can take care of all
> of that.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 
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