BIGI LTM VE qcow2 image - Shared directory too small for upgrade

I managed to work this out and am posting the solution to help anyone who has the same problem.

Basically, you need to:

• boot into the BigIP MOS (Maintenance Operating System)
• extend and resize the logical shared partition
• reboot

The steps are as follows:

• boot into the BigIP MOS (Maintenance Operating System)

  • boot into the BigIP as normal
  • use the

    grub_open

    command the get the grub file to modify
  • edit the file, changing default to '1' instead of '0'
  • use the

    grub_close

    command to save the modified file.
  • reboot. This time the VM should go into 'MOS' mode without mounting any of the file systems.

• extend and resize the logical shared partition

  • use

    lvscan

    to list the available partitions
  • use

    lvextend

    to extend the partition in question (Reference: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/extendlv.html)
  • use

    resize4fs

    to resize the enlarged partition.
  • reboot. The default is reset automatically and the VM reboots into normal mode.

Now you should see that the mount has been resized.

Hope it helps someone.

Cheers, Steve