How to resize a virtual disk of KVM
I test it for qcow2 format. Other formats are TBA.
qemu-img resize kvm1.qcow2 +20G
cp kvm1.qcow2 kvm1-orig.qcow2
virt-resize --expand /dev/sda1 kvm1-orig.qcow2 kvm1.qcow2
Reference: https://fatmin.com/2016/12/20/how-to-resize-a-qcow2-image-and-filesystem-with-virt-resize/
I test it for qcow2 format. Other formats are TBA.
qemu-img resize kvm1.qcow2 +20G
cp kvm1.qcow2 kvm1-orig.qcow2
virt-resize --expand /dev/sda1 kvm1-orig.qcow2 kvm1.qcow2
Reference: https://fatmin.com/2016/12/20/how-to-resize-a-qcow2-image-and-filesystem-with-virt-resize/
The right answer is:
cp kvm1.qcow2 kvm1-orig.qcow2
qemu-img resize kvm1.qcow2 +20G
virt-resize –expand /dev/sda1 kvm1-orig.qcow2 kvm1.qcow2
First copy, second resize the new image, third resize partition.
How to expand a kvm .img with only one reboot:
qemu-img resize {/smnt/virt/images/name.img} +size (k, M, G or T)
virsh qemu-monitor-command {VM-name} info block –hmp (Capture the drive-virtio-disk number, usually 0)
virsh qemu-monitor-command {VM-name} block_resize drive-virtio-disk# [new size k, M, G or T] –hmp
lsblk should show the updated size of /dev/vda
dmesg {system picks up updated size}
delete and recreate vda3 using fdisk /dev/vda (c, u, d, 3, w) (c, u, n, p, 3, {default}, {default}, w)
reboot VM, need to reboot the KVM to update the kernel of the new partition size. Parted will not update the kernel because the volumes are mounted, remounting without reboot will not update the kernel.
lsblk should show updated size of partition
resize2fs /dev/vda3