Grow a Proxmox VE VM disk or move it to different storage via the API
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Documented steps
To grow a disk: PUT /nodes/{node}/qemu/{vmid}/resize with disk=<config key, e.g. scsi0> and size.
size accepts either a relative increment with a leading plus — size=+50G adds 50 GiB to the current size — or an absolute target — size=100G. Suffixes are K, M, G, T.
Pass digest=<config digest> to guard against a concurrent config change. The call returns a UPID; poll it.
After the task completes, grow the partition and filesystem INSIDE the guest — Proxmox only enlarges the block device. On Linux typically: growpart /dev/sda 1 then resize2fs or xfs_growfs.
To move a disk to another storage: POST /nodes/{node}/qemu/{vmid}/move_disk with disk=<key> and storage=<target storage>. Optional format, bwlimit, digest.
By default the original volume is retained as an 'unused' disk on the old storage. Pass delete=1 to remove it after a successful copy — or clean it up later once you have verified the guest boots.
move_disk can also reassign a disk to a different VM: set target-vmid and optionally target-disk instead of storage.
Known gotchas
Shrinking is not supported. Proxmox rejects any size smaller than the current one; there is no force flag. Shrinking requires shrinking the filesystem in-guest and rebuilding the volume manually — plan capacity accordingly.
Growing the virtual disk does nothing visible inside the guest until you extend the partition and filesystem there. Agents routinely report 'resized' when the application still sees a full disk.
resize is PUT, not POST. move_disk is POST. Getting the verb wrong returns 405/501, not a helpful error.
Without delete=1, move_disk leaves the old volume consuming space as an unused disk — a common cause of a storage migration that frees nothing.
Both operations copy or allocate real data and can saturate storage bandwidth. Use bwlimit on move_disk in production.
Resizing a disk that has snapshots may be blocked depending on the storage backend; delete snapshots first if the task fails.
Source: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/api-viewer/ (PUT /nodes/{node}/qemu/{vmid}/resize, POST .../move_disk).
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