[qubes-users] How to resize bionic-desktop template

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Hello

I have tried to resize the bionic-desktop template through the usual “Qube Settings” menu but it actually doesn’t resize. I’ve tried to look for information about this on the internet but I couldn’t get a clue on how to do it.
Does anyone know how to do it?

Thanks in advance!

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qvm-volume resize bionic-desktop:root <new size>

new size can be e.g 50G

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Hello

Thank you very much!

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Hello

I have another question relating this.
That command resizes the logical volume and that’s ok, but… the problem is that partitions inside that volume doesn’t get resized.

What I’ve done is:
Installing the bionic-desktop template
Clone the template to bionic-desktop_test
Resize the logical volume with "qvm-volume resize bionic-desktop_test:root 20G

Now I start the template, open a terminal on it and run:
user@localhost:~$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
xvda 202:0 1 18.6G 0 disk
├─xvda1 202:1 1 200M 0 part
├─xvda2 202:2 1 2M 0 part
└─xvda3 202:3 1 9.8G 0 part /
xvdb 202:16 1 2G 0 disk /rw
xvdc 202:32 1 10G 0 disk
├─xvdc1 202:33 1 1G 0 part [SWAP]
└─xvdc3 202:35 1 9G 0 part
xvdd 202:48 1 500M 1 disk

So the volume was resized (18.6G) but the root partition is still 9.8G and that means… there’s a limit for the software that can be installed in there.
I can’t resize the partition from inside the template and I can’t find how resize specifically the xvda3 partition inside that particular logical volume.

Any ideas on how to do it?

Thanks in advance!

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The simplest route for you would be to use a tool like gparted:
`apt install gparted`

Open gparted - you will be asked if you want to make the extra
space available - say "Yes".
Then in the GUI, expand /dev/xvda3 to use the available space.

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Hello

Worked like a charm
Second time in a row that you save my day.

It really helped me

Thank you very much man!