How to Expand QCOW2

Today, one of my VMs needs to have its disk increased. I’m using qcow2 as the VM’s storage. Here is one way to expand the storage that it’s been proven to work very well for me. I already increased this VM’s disk to 30GiB once already, but it wasn’t enough. So here, let’s explode it to 50GiB. The name of the qcow2 file is hosta.qcow2. A friendly reminder that you should alway shave a backup before you perform any critical change such as this one....

November 22, 2020 · 3 min · 596 words · kenno