Notes

Resizing a Ubuntu Disk in a UTM VM

October 19, 2022

UTM is an awesome virtualization system based on QEMU built for M1 (ARM) Macs. v4.0.8 of UTM, the first v4 stable release, came out today with support for resizing QEMU disk images but while the UTM docs show how to resize the UTM machine, there’s several more steps to get the virtualized file system to recognize the additional disk space.

For an Ubuntu guest OS running a default GPT and LVM partition:

  1. On a shut down VM, in the UTM UI’s configuration, select the disk you wish to expand, resize the disk, and save the VM configuration.
  2. Launch the VM and get a terminal
  3. Run sudo fdisk -l and confirm that there is a GPT PMBR Size Mismatch will be corrected by w(rite) warning
  4. Run sudo parted -l and gparted should ask to automatically fix the size mismatch. Fix the size mismatch.
  5. If the resizing doesn’t work, manually run parted /dev/vda resize 3 100%.
  6. Run pvresize /dev/vda3.
  7. Run sudo lvm to get an lvm console
  8. Run lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/ubuntu-vg/ubuntu-lv to expand the lvm logical volume
  9. Exit the lvm console
  10. Run sudo resize2fs /dev/ubuntu-vg/ubuntu-lv to expand the ext4 file system to the logical volume
  11. Run df -h to confirm that the /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv has been expanded.

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