Resize Virtual Machine Disk Size (KVM)

When using VMs, we often run into situations that requires expanding the disk size. This post summarizes steps to resize a disk attached to libvirt managed VM.

On Host Machine:

1. Shutdown virtual machine

   virsh shutdown guest-vm
   

2. Resize virtual disk

   sudo qemu-img resize /site/vm/guest-disk.qcow2 +10G
   

3. Restart VM and update

   virsh start guest-vm
   

Inside Virtual Machine:

In some cases, within the VM, filesystem needs to be updated to take advantage of the expanded disk space. For disk type=’volume’, VM filesystem seems to grow automatically.

For Btrfs based filesystem, follow the following commands:

sudo fdisk /dev/vda # remove old partition, add new partition. 
sudo btrfs filesystem resize +10g /

On LVM managed filesystem,

sudo growpart /dev/vda3
sudo pvresize /dev/vda3
sudo lvextend -r -l +100%FREE /dev/ubuntu-vg/ubuntu-lv

To validate the filesystem is successfully resized:

lsblk

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