Increasing Disk Size on Existing VM Disk

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 17:05:03 +0100

When you’re using your Proxmox server you might run in the problem of not having enough HDD space defined for some of your VMs, using ZFS (pools) it’s really easy to fix this.

Since all my VM disks are simple files you can easily increase their size by running the following command:

bash


qm resize <vmid> <disk> <size>

Let’s say you have a VM with a disk named vm-100-disk-0 and you wan to increase the disk size by 100GB, you just run

bash


qm resize 100 vm-100-disk-0 +100G

and you’re halfway there!

Now you need to tell the VM to use the newly added space, first you need to check if the system sees the new space by running

bash


dmesg | grep sda

Now we need the right partition to add the space to, run the following to check which partitions there are

bash


fdisk -l /dev/sda | grep ^/dev

Remember the number /dev/sda3 for example would be 3.
(Just make sure you’re grepping the right device, vda is also a possibility.)

Now run pared with the right device

bash


parted /dev/sda

It will ask you to fix the unused space, enter F for fix, then run

bash


resizepart 3 100%

This will resize partition (sda)3 to use 100% of the newly added space.

That’s it, no need to reboot!

You can find a more detailed description at the source: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Resize_disks

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Increasing Disk Size on Existing VM Disk