From 521838ecfee5095770214a2246c0c95307215bd1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Silvio Rhatto <rhatto@riseup.net>
Date: Sat, 9 May 2020 21:34:23 -0300
Subject: Ideas: image resize action

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 IDEAS.md | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

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diff --git a/IDEAS.md b/IDEAS.md
index c83fedd..ac2f6bf 100644
--- a/IDEAS.md
+++ b/IDEAS.md
@@ -23,3 +23,21 @@
   * Pull from remote repository and check source integrity.
   * Automatic VM (re-)creation and/or provisioning.
   * Status report.
+* Image resize action, doing something like this, thanks to
+  https://ahelpme.com/linux/online-resize-of-a-root-ext4-file-system-increase-the-space/
+
+    # poweroff
+    kvmx poweroff $guest
+
+    # resize image
+    qemu-img resize `kvmx list_image $guest` +5G
+
+    # power up
+    kvmx up $gues
+
+    # resize virtual machine root fs - while the partition is mounted!
+    # this parted command currently need to be done manually
+    echo resizepart 2 -1 | kvmx ssh $guest sudo parted /dev/vda
+    kvmx ssh $guest sudo resize2fs /dev/vda2
+    kvmx ssh $guest sudo touch /forcefsck
+    kvmx ssh $guest sudo poweroff
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