Qubes System Storage Max size

[Reza Naqshbendi]

Hi there,

I'm using Qubes 3.2 with recently upgraded fedora-28. For one of my VMs
I wanted to increase the System Storage max size, I mistyped the figure
and went beyond what I wanted. I've set it around 100GB! I noticed
immediately but the problem is that I can't change it back. I can
increase it even more (!) but I can't reduce it. After the setting I got
the message that I needed to run resize2fs for the change to be
implemented really. I didn't but after the reboot I see it still having
the giant size!

The initial reason for me to increase the system storage size was to be
able to install GIMP 2.10 through Flatpak. With the default system
storage size, and in spite of having 15GB in private size of the
template, I couldn't install the package getting the message that I had
not enough space left. Space is all over the place, but probably not at
the right spot.

Thanks

[js...@bitmessage.ch]

Reza Naqshbendi:

Hi,

Yea qubes has a problem with shrinking the image size after it's been
expanded.

https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/resize-disk-image/

The easiest thing is probably just to leave it as it is. The template
isn't really using that much space and qubes manager will show how much
space it's actually using. You can redownload a fresh template and start
again too tho.

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Jackie