#!/bin/bash
### This is a utility script that can be used to resize a vm's disk
### image in case that image is just a bare filesystem with no
### partition table or boot record. You should shutdown the vm prior
### to using this script.
if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
echo "Usage: resize.sh (e.g., resize.sh disk 500G)" 1>&2
exit 1
fi
DISK="$1"
SIZE="$2"
echo "Will attempt to resize $DISK to $SIZE."
if [ ! -w "$DISK" ]; then
echo "Error: Cannot write to $DISK, maybe you need to sudo."
exit 1
fi
TMPDISK="$DISK.$RANDOM"
if !(cp "$DISK" "$TMPDISK"); then
echo "Error: unable to make a temporary copy of $DISK named $TMPDISK." 1>&2
exit 1
fi
if !(qemu-img resize "$TMPDISK" "$SIZE"); then
echo "Error: qemu-img failed." 1>&2
exit 1
fi
echo "Attempting guestfs resize... this might take a few minutes."
guestfish <&2
exit 1
fi
if !(mv "$TMPDISK" "$DISK"); then
echo "Error: unable to move $TMPDISK back on top of $DISK." 1>&2
exit 1
fi
echo "Great success."