Describe the issue: Decreasing block image size requires --allow-shrink flag 2.7. Resizing a block device image: Given command can only be used to increase the image size rbd resize --image IMAGE_NAME --size SIZE rbd resize --image POOL_NAME/IMAGE_NAME --size SIZE #rbd create image1 --size 1024 --pool pool1 #rbd resize --image pool1/image1 --size 512 rbd: shrinking an image is only allowed with the --allow-shrink flag