Migrate to a bigger disk possible?

Paul van der Vlis paul at vandervlis.nl
Sat Apr 25 14:40:35 UTC 2020


Op 25-04-2020 om 16:00 schreef Paul van der Vlis:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a qcow2 disk what needs to become increased.
> 
> I don't have space on the location where it is now to have it two time,
> so I want to live-migrate it to another host.
> 
> On the other host I have to create a qcow2 disk before I can migrate.
> 
> What would happen when I would create there a bigger qcow2 disk then the
> original one?  Can I resize the filesystem after the migration?

Not sure why, but I thought it's not possible to encrease qcow2 disks
without copying the disk. But now I find many manuals what say it's no
problem. Sorry...

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis


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