Guestfish

guestfish - the guest filesystem shell included in libguestfs-tools package in Ubuntu/Debian.

• https://libguestfs.org/guestfish.1.html

list-devices
list-partitions
lvs
pvs 
vfs-type
file
ls, ll, cat, more, download and tar-out

resize2fs-size /dev/sda145 16G https://www.ullright.org/ullWiki/show/libguestfs-tools-virtual-machine-image-tools

guestfish -a IMAGE.QCOW2

guestfish -a IMAGE.QCOW2

Welcome to guestfish, the guest filesystem shell for
editing virtual machine filesystems and disk images. 

Type: ‘help’ for help on commands
     ‘man’ to read the manual
     ‘quit’ to quit the shell

><fs> run
><fs>

><fs> list-filesystems
/dev/sda1: ext4

><fs> e2fsck /dev/sda1
libguestfs: error: e2fsck: e2fsck 1.45.5 (07-Jan-2020)
e2fsck: need terminal for interactive repairs

Related terms

• guestmount

See also

• KVM, Installation, QEMU, virsh, virtinst, libguestfs-tools, libvirt, qemu, Red Hat Virtualization (RHV), MacVTap, Virtio, oVirt, KVM services, KVM networking, KVM graphics, CPU, KVM on ARM
• libguestfs-tools: virt-sysprep, virt-clone, virt-builder, virt-customize, virt-resize, virt-rescue, virt-sparsify, guestmount, guestfish, virt-inspector, virt-cat, virt-log, virt-df, virt-ls, virt-filesystems, virt-list-filesystems, virt-edit