Re: GNOME Boxes resizing the disk
On 03/08/2015 01:28 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: qemu-img, virt-resize, and guestfish. It depends on whether you're shrinking or growing which you use and in what order. All of it can be done from the host using qemu-img and guestfish, without the VM being online. And guestfish can resize (well, delete then add) MBR and GPT partitions, resize LVs, and at least the three major filesystems. For sure the VM needs to be off when using guestfish. Of course, you could boot the VM from some other image, and use the tools you're familiar with from inside the VM. For growing, it's possible to do this online even without booting from some other image, but it'll take one early reboot after changing the last partition size, or adding another partition, to capture the extra space from qemu-img resize. Chris Murphy Hi! So I actually chose the smallest/defaut size and that was a mistake. Now I need to increase the size which I did through the GUI, but of course the OS (GNU/Linux) doesn't see it. I do not want to delete the disk and make a bigger one as I don't want to reinstall. I think the fs type is ext4 but I went through automatic install and didn't pay attention... I couldn't find out how to reboot for the iso file an already installed VM. Thank you if you could tell me more. Fred -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
GNOME Boxes resizing the disk
Hi! I'm playing with Boxes and need to resize the virtual disk which I had done through the graphical interface. Now I need to resize the disk probably by booting from the ISO disk and can't find anyway to do that. If someone could point out how to do that, or where to find the information I would really appreciate. Thank you. Fred -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: GNOME Boxes resizing the disk
On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Frederic Muller f...@cm17.com wrote: So I actually chose the smallest/defaut size and that was a mistake. Now I need to increase the size which I did through the GUI, but of course the OS (GNU/Linux) doesn't see it. I don't know what that means, increasing the size through the GUI. I wasn't aware Boxes even had an option to resize qcow2 files (?) I do not want to delete the disk and make a bigger one as I don't want to reinstall. I think the fs type is ext4 but I went through automatic install and didn't pay attention... I couldn't find out how to reboot for the iso file an already installed VM. Thank you if you could tell me more. It's easier to tell you to reinstall and use Manual Partitioning, and use Standard Partitions instead of LVM. Otherwise I have to write up a bunch of questions and a how to, and to actually do that effectively I'd probably need to run through it myself and I don't have the hardware to do that at the moment. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
