Hacking on Fabric8 Gateway

I'm currently adding a mbean to the Fabric8 gateway and one of the things I learned about are SRC annotations. These annotations are developed by the Apache Felix Project and they allow resource injection.

Something else I learned is that fabric8 reads its libraries straight from maven, and caches it in your local .m2 maven repository. So in development all you need to do is enable watching your repo using

Fabric8:karaf@root> fabric:watch *

Then when building your jar using 'mvn install' it will automatically be picked up by karaf without needing to restart the fabric8 server.

Extend a logical volume on a encrypted disk

My encrypted disk shows up as a 'double' volume in the 'Disk Utility' as shown in the following figure

You can see both volumes show up as 253 GB. I think it means the encrypted volume is using the LVM2 Physical Volume. Then the encrypted volume contains 5 mapped volumes which are listed under 'Peripheral Devices'. Initially they where:

• Home: 4GB
• NotBackedUp: 8GB
• Root: 15 GB
• Swap: 4 GB
• VirtualMachines: 29GB

This totals  about 60 GB, and 'vgdisplay HelpDeskRHEL6' shows:

# vgdisplay HelpDeskRHEL6
  --- Volume group ---
  VG Name               HelpDeskRHEL6
  System ID            
  Format                lvm2
  Metadata Areas        1
  Metadata Sequence No  6
  VG Access             read/write
  VG Status             resizable
  MAX LV                0
  Cur LV                5
  Open LV               5
  Max PV                0
  Cur PV                1
  Act PV                1
  VG Size               235.47 GiB
  PE Size               4.00 MiB
  Total PE              60280
  Alloc PE / Size       15346 / 59.95 GiB
  Free  PE / Size       44934 / 175.52 GiB
  VG UUID               zXN22u-w74k-PxAn-RhB0-QZib-Pg0e-apCHx0




Which show the Alloc Size of 59.95 GB, and it also shows I still have 175.52 GB of Free Size. I want to use that as part of my 'NotBackedUp' Logical Volume and I use lvextend to add 150GB to it:

# lvextend -L 150G /dev/HelpDeskRHEL6/NotBackedUp
  Extending logical volume NotBackedUp to 150.00 GiB
  Logical volume NotBackedUp successfully resized

Next, to actually use the extra space we need to resize the filesystem using resize2fs

# resize2fs /dev/HelpDeskRHEL6/NotBackedUp
resize2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Filesystem at /dev/HelpDeskRHEL6/NotBackedUp is mounted on /NotBackedUp; on-line resizing required
old desc_blocks = 1, new_desc_blocks = 10
Performing an on-line resize of /dev/HelpDeskRHEL6/NotBackedUp to 39321600 (4k) blocks.
The filesystem on /dev/HelpDeskRHEL6/NotBackedUp is now 39321600 blocks long. 
and to verify we can see the large NotBackedUp Volume I use df:

# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/HelpDeskRHEL6-Root
                       15G  7.5G  6.2G  55% /
tmpfs                 7.7G  600K  7.7G   1% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/HelpDeskRHEL6-NotBackedUp
                      148G  7.5G  133G   6% /NotBackedUp
/dev/mapper/HelpDeskRHEL6-VirtualMachines
                       29G  8.2G   20G  30% /VirtualMachines
/dev/sda1             3.0G   93M  2.8G   4% /boot
/dev/mapper/HelpDeskRHEL6-Home
                      4.0G  260M  3.5G   7% /home