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Resizing Disk Image

There are several disk images which can be easily extended. But pay attention to the overall consumed space of your sparse disk images.

Private disk image

1048576 MB is the maximum size which can be assigned to a private storage through qubes-manager.

To grow the private disk image of a AppVM beyond this limit qubes-grow-private can be used:

qvm-grow-private <vm-name> <size>

Note: Size is the target size (i.e. 4096MB or 16GB, ...), not the size to add to the existing disk.

Note2: If once the VM is started, the disk is has not been increased, you can issue in the VM's terminal:

sudo resize2fs /dev/xvdb

HVM disk image

In this example we will grow the disk image of an HVM to 30GB.

First, stop/shutdown the HVM.

Then, from a Dom0 terminal (in KDE: System Tools -> Terminal Emulator) do the following:

cd /var/lib/qubes/appvms/<yourHVM>/
ls -lh root.img  (<--verify current size of disk image)
truncate -s 30GB root.img
ls -lh root.img  (<--verify new size of disk image)

The partition table and file-system must be adjusted after this change:

Windows 7

1. Click Start
2. type "diskmgmt.msc" - this takes you to Disk Management
3. Right-click on your existing volume, select "Extend Volume..."
4. Click through the wizard.

No reboot required.

FreeBSD

gpart recover ada0
sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0x10
gpart resize -i index ada0
zpool online -e poolname ada0