+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1169015 +++ Description of problem: virt-resize fails with an "write: No space left on device" error when trying to expand the http://libguestfs.org/download/builder/ubuntu-14.04.xz image. I encountered this error by running virt-builder with --size=10G on Fedora 21. It used to work on Fedora 20. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm -q libguestfs-tools-c libguestfs-tools-c-1.28.2-3.fc21.x86_64 Steps to Reproduce: 1. curl http://libguestfs.org/download/builder/ubuntu-14.04.xz | xz -cd > ubuntu-14.04.img 2. virt-resize -v -x --expand=/dev/sda1 ubuntu-14.04.img 10G.img 2>&1 | tee virt-resize-log.txt Actual results: virt-resize: error: libguestfs error: copy_device_to_device: /dev/sdb2: write: No space left on device (full detail in attached log file) --- Additional comment from Sylvain Pasche on 2014-11-28 17:48:27 EST --- I forgot the "truncate -s10G 10G.img" command just before running virt-resize. --- Additional comment from Richard W.M. Jones on 2014-11-29 02:26:44 EST --- I suspect https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/fc34e2d16c2d13d6ae7a381ba931e345ab5ae56d (which I don't think is wrong) which changes the type we use when creating the extended partition. Previously it would create it as "primary", now it is created as "extended". --- Additional comment from Sylvain Pasche on 2014-11-29 08:28:53 EST --- Looks like it is, if I revert that change it succeeds (tried with libguestfs-1.29.11). --- Additional comment from Hu Tao on 2014-12-07 22:26:21 EST --- --- Additional comment from Hu Tao on 2014-12-07 22:29:22 EST --- Please try the attached patch and feedback. Thanks! The root cause of the problem is that the size of an extended partition reported by Linux is alwas 1024 bytes, so when you are writing to the device (such as /dev/sdb2) corresponding to the extended partition, you can only write 1024 bytes. --- Additional comment from Richard W.M. Jones on 2014-12-08 09:11:21 EST --- Hu Tao's patch has gone upstream, please try it out: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/9d6f0b6a86d68438b27a3d783677c63f39ec6627 --- Additional comment from Sylvain Pasche on 2014-12-09 15:33:34 EST --- I tried the patch on top of libguestfs-1.29.13 and the resizing succeeds now with ubuntu-14.04.img. Thanks! --- Additional comment from Richard W.M. Jones on 2014-12-10 09:13:10 EST --- Closing / upstream. This is likely to be a problem on Fedora 21 & RHEL 7.1 too, so I am going to clone it.
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