"qemu-img resize -f qcow2" produces broken disk images Description of problem: The documentation of `qemu-img` at makes it sound like `qemu-img resize` supports various image formats (raw, qcow2, etc.) in the same way. But it doesn't. While `qemu-img resize -f raw` works as expected, `qemu-img resize -f qcow2` produces broken disk images. Steps to reproduce: ``` $ wget http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-9/latest/evbarm-aarch64/binary/gzimg/arm64.img.gz $ gunzip arm64.img ``` First resize, then convert: ``` $ cp arm64.img arm64-rc.img $ qemu-img resize -f raw arm64-rc.img 10G $ qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 arm64-rc.img arm64-rc.qcow2 $ rm -f arm64-rc.img ``` First convert, then resize: ``` $ qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 arm64.img arm64-cr.qcow2 $ qemu-img resize -f qcow2 arm64-cr.qcow2 10G ``` Attach to a VM in VirtualBox (as an additional SATA disk) and start that VM. arm64-rc.qcow2 => `# fdisk /dev/sdb` => it has two partitions. arm64-cr.qcow2 => `# fdisk /dev/sdb` => it has no partitions! And the VM cannot be cleanly shut down. I had to manually kill the VirtualBoxVM process. Additional information: