I've created a VM in Unraid to run HA OS. I used one of the image files from the HA github (haos_generic-x86-64-10.5.img).

This file is about 6 GB in size.

After getting that working, I added another virtual disk via the VM control/setup panel in Unraid; this made another mounted disk available within HA, for another 10 GB. My thought was to direct HA to save data on that second disk.

Then I wanted to enlarge the original virtual disk that HAOS starts within, so I enlarged its image file by another 10GB using the following command within the Unraid console, while the VM was stopped:

 

sudo qemu-img resize <path to image file> +10G

 

This succeeded in making the file that much larger, but I don't think HA is seeing the increase in its disk size.

I'm thinking that something needs to be done to its partition to actually make use of the increased bytes.

I'm assuming that whatever needs to be done, must be done from within the HA OS itself, while the VM is running.

But that's where I'm stuck; what tools are available within HA OS to do this sort of partition editing??

Or am I missing the boat here? Is there an easier way to get this done?

On 9/29/2023 at 3:50 PM, ICPete said:

I'm thinking that something needs to be done to its partition to actually make use of the increased bytes.

How I handle this sort of thing is a dedicated VM with all the good tools, like gparted and such. Temporarily assign the target vdisk as a second drive to your utility VM, load up the disk utilities and do what you need to do.

Thanks Jonathan,

I hadn't thought of that solution. Sounds like it should work.

I'll try it in the next couple of days and report back.

That worked. Thank you Jonathan.