14.10. Re-sizing the Disk Image

Change the disk image filename as if it had been created with size size. Only images in raw format can be resized in both directions, whereas qcow2 images can be grown but cannot be shrunk.

Use the following to set the size of the disk image filename to size bytes:

qemu-img resize filename size

# qemu-img resize filename size

You can also resize relative to the current size of the disk image. To give a size relative to the current size, prefix the number of bytes with + to grow, or - to reduce the size of the disk image by that number of bytes. Adding a unit suffix allows you to set the image size in kilobytes (K), megabytes (M), gigabytes (G) or terabytes (T).

qemu-img resize filename [+|-]size[K|M|G|T]

# qemu-img resize filename [+|-]size[K|M|G|T]