Disks

This guide explains how to increase the disk size of a Lima VM running on macOS when you’ve run out of space, as well as how to edit the disk size using the limactl CLI.

Resize Disk Using limactl

Starting with v1.1, Lima supports editing the disk size of an existing instance using the --disk flag with the limactl edit command.
This is the recommended and simplest way to resize your VM disk.

limactl edit <vm-name> --disk <new-size>

Example for 20GB:

limactl edit default --disk 20

Note:

• Increasing disk size is supported, but shrinking disks is not recommended.
• The instance may need to be stopped before editing disk size.