Looking over the wiki I did not see any information on increasing the disk space for the guest OS. I have a server 2008 installed with 100GB of space on the drive in the .qcow2 file system. I am looking to increase the amount of space the os has assigned to it. I would to know how to go about doing this. Thanks for any help.
Increase drive space qcow2
- Thread starter Majerus
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Hi,
Code:
qemu-img resize filename [+ | -]sizeUdo
Ok so I ran qemu-img resize /var/lib/vz/images/103/vm-103-disk-1.qcow2 + 200G and "image resized" was returned. I had the guest OS shutdown and after running the command booted the guest os checked disk manager and did not see any extra space. I then proceeded to rebooting the entire cluster with still no luck. Any other thoughts?
Hi,
reboot of the cluster won't help ;-)
I'm not sure if the space between + and 200G makes trouble.
What shows "qemu-img info /var/lib/vz/images/103/vm-103-disk-1.qcow2" ?
If you boot an cd-iso inside the VM (gparted or an othe linux live-cd) do you see an bigger disk (fdisk -l)?
Udo
After running /var/lib/vz/images/103/vm-103-disk-1.qcow2 +200G with out the space i was able to reboot the server and then extend the drive. I ran qemu-img info /var/lib/vz/images/103/vm-103-disk-1.qcow2 and received this.
image: /var/lib/vz/images/103/vm-103-disk-1.qcow2file format: qcow2
virtual size: 300G (322122547200 bytes)
disk size: 8.8G
cluster_size: 65536
any reason why the webUI did not update the new drive size?
image: /var/lib/vz/images/103/vm-103-disk-1.qcow2file format: qcow2
virtual size: 300G (322122547200 bytes)
disk size: 8.8G
cluster_size: 65536
any reason why the webUI did not update the new drive size?
Hopefully you mean the win-server inside the VM for reboot and not the proxmox-server. Normaly it's should be enoug to switch of the VM, resize and switch on the VM (and extend inside the VM).
Udo
. If i had to reboot the cluster every time I needed to add storage that would be pretty rough. Thanks again for the help.