Comments on: Create local ISO Storage in XenServer from remaining space on boot Disk

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 19:45:49 +0000

You can create a new partition using gdisk. Do something like this:

gdisk /dev/gdb

Press “?” to see the list of available commands… you can see that pressing ‘n’ will start a wizard to create a new partition. To use the remaining available space on your disk, just accept all the default settings by pressing ‘enter’ repeatedly. This will not format the partition, so you will start back at that point in Jeroen’s guide above.

MVG,
Jonathan

By: KrLz

KrLz — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 19:08:43 +0000

Really thanks !!!

Works perfect for me !!!

By: Darren Taylor

Darren Taylor — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 21:45:17 +0000

OK Thanks it was worth a try.

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 09:04:52 +0000

In reply to Darren Taylor.

There is no partition for your remaining space. So you have to create a partition (sdb3).

I dond’t have a XenServer environment at this moment, so I cant help you.

But with good goole skills you can find an answer )

By: Darren Taylor

Darren Taylor — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 15:32:43 +0000

Hi Jeroen. This information is just what i am looking for and seems to be the clearest I have found.
However I have two disks installed 80gb which is system and 250Gb for the vm storage. The problem I have is that the remaining space on the system disk is not being allocated to sdb3.

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sdb: 156250000 sectors, 74.5 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 0964B78A-0653-443A-9F37-036C08B5C132
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 156249966
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 139476745 sectors (66.5 GiB)

Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 8388641 4.0 GiB 0700
2 8390656 16777249 4.0 GiB 0700

Are you able to point me in the correct direct to create sbd3

Thanks

By: Jeroen Tielen

Jeroen Tielen — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 06:56:59 +0000

In reply to Yadhu Tony. Your Welcome Yadhu.

By: Yadhu Tony

Yadhu Tony — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:02:29 +0000

Really helpful ! Thanks a lot Jeroen 🙂

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:55:48 +0000

In reply to Ingmar Verheij.

I know 😉 I thought that I had changed the post, but I didn’t ;). But now I have hahahaha. Thanks for the head up.

(damn five times “I” in 1 post… nice :))

By: Ingmar Verheij

Ingmar Verheij — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:57:12 +0000

Hi Jeroen,

Great post, very usefull!

The statement to mount the partition should be
# mount –t ext3 /dev/sda3 /mnt/iso/
instead of
# mount –t ext /dev/sda3 /mnt/iso/

Regards,
Ingmar Verheij