You could make a copy of the VM, and see if you can resize things with the copy and see if it breaks?
On 4/8/21 9:43 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
I'm currently fiddling with KVM, Proxmox and various VMs.
I setup a very basic VM with a manual (fdisk) partitioning scheme: one /boot partition, one swap partition, and one root partition, the latter being the last partition and thus expandable).
I'm starting with a reduced disk size (6 GB in total) and a minimal installation. The idea behind this approach is that I can clone this minimal VM and then eventually expand it to fit my needs.
Here's how I expand the available disk size.
First I increase the virtual disk in the hypervisor.
Then I fire up the VM and do the following:
# yum install cloud-utils-growpart # lsblk # growpart -v /dev/sda 3 # resize2fs /dev/sda3
Now here's my question (finally): is there any risk involved in this sort of operation? Or can it be performed on a production system without having to worry about data loss?
Cheers from the sunny South of France,
Niki