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Solus Virtual Manager (SolusVM) is a powerful GUI based VPS management system with full OpenVZ, Linux KVM, Xen Paravirtualization and Xen HVM support.

Here at Bobcares, we handle requests from our customers to fix similar errors as a part of our Server Management Services.

Today we will see how our Support Engineers fix this for our customers.

Solusvm virt-resize fails on the Centos 6

Virt-resize is a tool which can resize a virtual machine disk, making it larger or smaller overall, and resizing or deleting any partitions contained within.

At times, creation of KVM VPS fails on CentOS 6 KVM node due to failed virt-resize process:

libguestfs: trace: launch = 0
Expanding /dev/sda1 using the ‘resize2fs’ method …
libguestfs: trace: resize2fs “/dev/sda1”
libguestfs: trace: resize2fs = -1 (error)
Fatal error: exception Guestfs.Error(“resize2fs: e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
/dev/sda1 has unsupported feature(s): 64bit
e2fsck: Get a newer version of e2fsck!”)
libguestfs: trace: close

You can check the version of e2fsck tool by running the below command:

#e2fsck -V
e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Using EXT2FS Library version 1.41.12, 17-May-2010

Cause for Solusvm virt-resize fails on the Centos 6

e2fsck is a tool that helps you recover your file system and restore your Linux system to usable state.

e2fsck checks for ext2/ext3/ext4 for errors and repair them accordingly.

However, this error may happen when the e2fsck 1.41.12 that is available for CentOS 6 does not support 64-bit feature.

How to resolve it?

Let us go through the simple steps followed by our Support Techs to resolve it.

Update e2fsprogs package as below:

• Firstly, install OnApp repository:

# wget http://cdn.rpm.repo.onapp.com/repo/OnApp-hosters.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/OnApp-hosters.repo

• Then, remove current e2fsprogs package:

# rpm -e –nodeps e2fsprogs

• Next, install the package anew, now from OnApp repo

# yum install e2fsprogs -y

• Then, check that the tool has a newer version

# rpm -qa e2fsprogs
e2fsprogs-1.43.4-2.el7.onapp.x86_64

• Finally, try to deploy a new virtual server

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Conclusion

In short, today we saw how our Support Techs resolved Solusvm virt-resize failure error.