Unable to increase qemu raw image file size

Question

I am trying to increase the size of the raw image from 2G by an extra 4G using the command

$ qemu-img resize usb.img +4G

and it was successful.

$ ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6405750784 Dec 22 13:58 usb.img

But inside the vm, the size still says 2G

$ df -kh .

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/hda2 1.8G 1.6G 81M 96% /

I tried increasing the size of the partition inside the vm using

$ resize2fs /dev/hda2

resize2fs 1.42.8 (20-Jun-2013)

The filesystem is already 1994752 blocks long. Nothing to do!

and

$ resize2fs /dev/hda

resize2fs 1.42.8 (20-Jun-2013)

The filesystem is already 1994752 blocks long. Nothing to do!

Can anyone let me know what I am missing here.

First of all you are missing the point of StackOverflow - it's about *programming* and your question is not related to programming. It's offtopic here. — Eugene Mayevski 'Callback, Dec 23 '14 at 08:13

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 29 '14 at 12:05

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Use Gparted (on the host) to add the new disk to the existing partition.

answered Dec 29 '14 at 12:05

Alex

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