id = 2102
title = "\"qemu-img resize -f qcow2\" produces broken disk images"
state = "closed"
created_at = "2024-01-16T12:15:05.030Z"
closed_at = "2024-01-17T17:04:19.091Z"
labels = ["block:qcow2"]
url = "https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2102"
host-os = "Ubuntu 22.04"
host-arch = "x86_64"
qemu-version = "8.2.0"
guest-os = "- OS/kernel version:"
guest-arch = "## Description of problem"
description = """The documentation of `qemu-img` at
<https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/tools/qemu-img.html>
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."""
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 = """"""