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Resize a disk

Introduction

As per the software description : "qemu-img allows you to create, convert and modify images offline. It can handle all image formats supported by QEMU."

Expanding a new disk implies creating a new blank image of the desired size and "copy" the existing disk into this new bigger image using virt-resize.

In-place expansion is not supported, which mean than a copy of the disk to be expanded has to be created {.is-info}

Installation

  • On Fedora-related distributions, virt-resize is provided by the guestfs-tools package :
# dnf install guestfs-tools

Usage

  • Create a new disk image

In-place expansion is not supported. A new disk of the desired size has to be created.

Use the following command to create phyllome_but_bigger.img, a disk of 15 GiB

$ qemu-img create -f raw phyllome-bigger.img 15G
  • Expand the root partition

This command only works if the root partition is located on vda3 and if the disk image filesystem uses EXT4.
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This command bellow requires root privileges.

# virt-resize --expand /dev/vda3 phyllome.img phyllome_but_bigger.img

[   0.0] Examining phyllome.img
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Summary of changes:

/dev/vda1: This partition will be left alone.

/dev/vda2: This partition will be left alone.

/dev/vda3: This partition will be resized from 5G to 15G.  The 
filesystem ext4 on /dev/vda3 will be expanded using the resize2fs 
method.

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[   2.1] Setting up initial partition table on phyllome-bigger.img
[  12.9] Copying /dev/vda1
[  13.1] Copying /dev/vda2
[  13.4] Copying /dev/vda3
 100% ⟦▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒⟧ 00:00
[  38.3] Expanding /dev/vda3 using the resize2fs method

Resize operation completed with no errors.  Before deleting the old disk, 
carefully check that the resized disk boots and works correctly.
  • Inform your virtual machine to use the new disk

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