How to enlarge Qemu/kvm virtual disk

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[@jimboyyjohnson3996]

Hey there! All of the videos you created have helped me a lot in understanding virtualization with KVM. I love the videos you make and hope to see more high quality content from you!

[@absprog]

Thanks! Will do my best!

[@tunisiangoldfarmer1508]

Thank you so much for this! First vid of urs I've seen and I can already tell that this channel is underrated B)

[@absprog]

Thank you, much appreciated!

[@2to22expiry]

Super helpful. Thanks. On my VM, I also had to do a "$sudo resize2fs /dev/vda3" to expand the filesystem. only then I could see the changes in partition size in my df -kh command. Is this something new???

[@N1mro8]

Doesn't it grow to the max file size?

[@nitro.x]

👏👏👏 This command was what I was missing. thanks.

[@stoicfloor]

short and sweet and to the point. Thank you!

[@absprog]

You’re welcome! Glad you found it useful!

[@Agileprofi]

love your stuff homie

[@absprog]

Glad to hear that. Thanks for your support 👍

[@dustinhess6798]

These videos have helped me immensely. Thank You!

[@absprog]

Thanks for your support and kind words!👍

[@ScottieCagno]

If you're doing this on a full hard drive, do you lose any data when you delete the old partition in order to grow the new partition?

[@victorhugodemoraes6586]

Many thanks

[@absprog]

I'm glad that you found the video helpful Victor

[@1980PartiZAN]

Thank you for your video. If when creating a virtual machine I used "Sata Disk 1", and not "VirtiO Disk 1" as you have in the video, can I change it ("Sata Disk 1") size in the direction of magnitude. How to do it?

[@MahmudulHasan-wk3qv]

thank you

[@absprog]

You're welcome

[@physicsdepartment6579]

Sir, can we also reduce the size from 80 GB to 50 GB ?

[@Torterra_ghahhyhiHd]

i did the commands but steel recognizing 15 instead of 50 that i had put. pls could some one help?

[@golvellius6855]

Ty

[@absprog]

You're welcome!

[@aicontentviral]

no idea why my computer just refuses to do any of this

[@thegames6391]

I had virtualized windows. How can I apply it?

[@abadi898]

i want to shrink it but file is too big to transfer to another drive help sadface

[@愛]

ily

[@absprog]

:-)