That makes perfect sense, thank you. I have deleted vda2 and vda5. I agree with you, no need for a swap partition. Swap files are working well.
On 12 Feb 2025, at 06:18, Atanas Vladimirov wrote: On 2025-02-12 01:00, 04-psyche.tot...@icloud.com wrote: Hi all, I run a Debian VM on an openBSD system. I need to increase the size of this VM. I've increased the size of the disk image via qemu-img resize disk.qcow2 +50G Now, I need the VM OS to be resized as well. I tried to resize the partition with fdisk, but this is not possible it seems because this is the OS partition (fair enough). I've then tried with growpart, but this failed as well. Is it possible to resize the OS partition? See some commands ran on the VM below: $lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS vda 254:0 0 100G 0 disk |-vda1 254:1 0 49G 0 part / |-vda2 254:2 0 1K 0 part `-vda5 254:5 0 975M 0 part [SWAP] $sudo fdisk /dev/vda1 This disk is currently in use - repartitioning is probably a bad idea. It's recommended to umount all file systems, and swapoff all swap partitions on this disk. The device contains 'ext4' signature and it will be removed by a write command. See fdisk(8) man page and --wipe option for more details. $sudo growpart /dev/vda 1 -v /dev/vda1 : start= 2048, size= 102854656, type=83, bootable /dev/vda2 : start= 102858750, size= 1996802, type=5 /dev/vda5 : start= 102858752, size= 1996800, type=82 max_end=102858749 tot=209715200 pt_end=102856703 pt_start=2048 pt_size=102854656 NOCHANGE: partition 1 could only be grown by 2046 [fudge=2048] Hi, You can't grow the first partition because you have two more partitions after it (vda2 and vda5). You have to delete the swap (vda5) and the logical partition (vda2), then expand the vda1. THen it is up to you if a new swap partition will be made (I would say no :). Best wishes, Atanas
