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title: "Resize a Centos 7 Virtual Machine in KVM/QEMU"
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date: 2019-05-09 22:45:00
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categories: [Linux Administration]
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tags: linux kvm zfs virtualization vm ubuntu
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comments: true
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---
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Being relatively new to the RHEL/Centos world, it's safe to say I'm learning a lot as I go. While Linux is mostly, well, *Linux* between distributions, each one has its own particular nuances.
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One of these nuances bit me last weekend on a new Centos 7 VM. I was spinning up a [borg-backup](https://www.borgbackup.org/) server to back up my roughly 50GB [Nextcloud](https://nextcloud.com/) instance, so I provisioned a 160GB qcow2 image to give it adequate wiggle room. After logging in for the first time post-install, I was dismayed to see only 100GB available for backup. It turns out that Centos 7 default paritioning included separate `/` and `/home` partitions, and allocated a whole 50GB for root. What good is 50GB going to do me when all I'm instaling is borg?
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One additional differentiator of RHEL/Centos from Ubuntu is the use of [XFS](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XFS) as the default filesystem. XFS is a solid, feature-packed filesystem, but one thing it can't do is shrink. This ruled out shrinking `/` and expanding `/home`, so I decided to eat my mistake and just expand the whole VM. Below is the process for future reference.
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## Extend the QCOW2 Image
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Shut down your VM
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``` bash
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$ sudo poweroff
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```
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SSH into your host machine and run the `qemu-img` tool on your VM guest image. I added an additional 100GB in the example below.
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``` bash
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$ sudo qemu-img resize /path/to/image.qcow2 +100G
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Image resized.
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```
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## Extend the Partition
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Since resizing root LVM paritions can be difficult from a running system, we're going to boot into a live environment for the remaining steps. You can use any Linux live environment for this, but I'll be using [GParted](https://gparted.org/) to keep things simple.
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Open up virt-manager and load the GParted ISO into the VM's optical drive, then click Apply.
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Select Boot Options and enable the optical drive before moving it to first in the boot order, then click Apply.
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Start your VM and follow the prompts to boot into the GParted live environment. You should notice the extra space you added as "unallocated".
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Select the LVM parition and click on Resize/Move.
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Drag the slider to fill in the remaining space and click Resize.
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Click Apply.
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## Extend the Logical Volume
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Close/minimize GParted and open the Terminal in the live environment.
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We have to help the live environment disover the logical volumes. You'll be able to use `sudo` without a password in all the following commands.
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``` bash
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$ sudo pvscan
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PV /dev/vda2 VG centos lvm2 [<259.00 GiB / 100.00 GiB free]
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Total: 1 [<259.00 GiB] / in use: 1 [<259.00 GiB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ]
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```
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``` bash
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$ sudo vgscan
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Reading volume groups from cache.
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Found volume group "centos" using metadata type lvm2
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```
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``` bash
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$ sudo vgdisplay
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--- Volume group ---
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VG Name centos
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System ID
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Format lvm2
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Metadata Areas 1
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Metadata Sequence No 5
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VG Access read/write
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VG Status resizable
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MAX LV 0
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Cur LV 3
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Open LV 0
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Max PV 0
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Cur PV 1
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Act PV 1
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VG Size <259.00 GiB
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PE Size 4.00 MiB
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Total PE 66303
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Alloc PE / Size 40702 / 158.99 GiB
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Free PE / Size 25601 / 100.00 GiB
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VG UUID r8vEjh-ZHBf-WWfi-lBSb-xfSd-HiTy-02TPMe
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```
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You can see from the above information that our Volume Group is resizable and has 100GB available for expansion. Take note of the number after "Free PE / Size".
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Let's confirm our available volumes.
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``` bash
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$ sudo lvs
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LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
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home centos -wi-a----- 106.99g
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root centos -wi-a----- 50.00g
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swap centos -wi-a----- 2.00g
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```
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Now we'll use the `lvextend` tool tool to expand our `/home` volume. The number noted earlier from the `vgdisplay` command will be used to signify the size increase.
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```bash
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$ sudo lvextend -l +25601 /dev/centos/home
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Size of logical volume centos/home changed from 106.99 GiB (27390 extents) to <207.00 GiB (52991 extents).
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Logical volume centos/home successfully resized.
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```
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## Expand the Filesystem
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Since Centos 7 defaults to XFS, we'll use the `xfs_growfs` tool. This requires the filesystem to be mounted first, so lets create a mount point and mount it there.
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```bash
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$ sudo mkdir /mnt/home
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```
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```bash
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$ sudo mount /dev/centos/home /mnt/home
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```
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Now run `xfs_growfs` to expand the filesystem into the available volume space.
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```bash
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$ sudo xfs_growfs /mnt/home
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meta-data=/dev/mapper/centos-home isize=512 agcount=4, agsize=7011840 blks
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= sectsz=512 attr=2, projid32bit=1
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= crc=1 finobt=0 spinodes=0 rmapbt=0
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= reflink=0
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data = bsize=4096 blocks=28047360, imaxpct=25
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= sunit=0 swidth=0 blks
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naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0 ftype=1
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log =internal bsize=4096 blocks=13695, version=2
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= sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1
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realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0
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data blocks changed from 28047360 to 54262784
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```
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Confirm the new volume size.
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```bash
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$ df -h
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Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
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udev 489M 0 489M 0% /dev
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/dev/sr0 309M 309M 0 100% /run/live/medium
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/dev/loop0 269M 269M 0 100% /run/live/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs
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/dev/mapper/centos-home 207G 44G 164G 21% /mnt/home
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```
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You can see that your `/home` volume is now '207GB' total in size.
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Power off your VM and be sure to remove the optical drive from the boot list in `virt-manager` before booting into your Centos 7 install.
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That's it! Please let me know via email or comment if you have a more efficient way to accomplish this. Going forward, the best thing to do is to set the desired paritioning at install time.
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Thanks for reading and happy hacking!
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