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 >