diff --git a/frontend/app/store/services.ts b/frontend/app/store/services.ts
index 738629f78..19d762189 100644
--- a/frontend/app/store/services.ts
+++ b/frontend/app/store/services.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ class BlockServiceType {
     GetControllerStatus(arg2: string): Promise<BlockControllerRuntimeStatus> {
         return WOS.callBackendService("block", "GetControllerStatus", Array.from(arguments))
     }
-    SaveTerminalState(arg2: string, arg3: string, arg4: string, arg5: number): Promise<void> {
+
+    // save the terminal state to a blockfile
+    SaveTerminalState(blockId: string, state: string, stateType: string, ptyOffset: number, termSize: TermSize): Promise<void> {
         return WOS.callBackendService("block", "SaveTerminalState", Array.from(arguments))
     }
     SaveWaveAiData(arg2: string, arg3: OpenAIPromptMessageType[]): Promise<void> {
diff --git a/frontend/app/view/term/termwrap.ts b/frontend/app/view/term/termwrap.ts
index 77a7acdfe..270850c6c 100644
--- a/frontend/app/view/term/termwrap.ts
+++ b/frontend/app/view/term/termwrap.ts
@@ -216,7 +216,21 @@ export class TermWrap {
         if (cacheFile != null) {
             ptyOffset = cacheFile.meta["ptyoffset"] ?? 0;
             if (cacheData.byteLength > 0) {
+                const curTermSize: TermSize = { rows: this.terminal.rows, cols: this.terminal.cols };
+                const fileTermSize: TermSize = cacheFile.meta["termsize"];
+                let didResize = false;
+                if (
+                    fileTermSize != null &&
+                    (fileTermSize.rows != curTermSize.rows || fileTermSize.cols != curTermSize.cols)
+                ) {
+                    console.log("terminal restore size mismatch, temp resize", fileTermSize, curTermSize);
+                    this.terminal.resize(fileTermSize.cols, fileTermSize.rows);
+                    didResize = true;
+                }
                 this.doTerminalWrite(cacheData, ptyOffset);
+                if (didResize) {
+                    this.terminal.resize(curTermSize.cols, curTermSize.rows);
+                }
             }
         }
         const { data: mainData, fileInfo: mainFile } = await fetchWaveFile(this.blockId, TermFileName, ptyOffset);
@@ -268,8 +282,9 @@ export class TermWrap {
             return;
         }
         const serializedOutput = this.serializeAddon.serialize();
-        console.log("idle timeout term", this.dataBytesProcessed, serializedOutput.length);
-        services.BlockService.SaveTerminalState(this.blockId, serializedOutput, "full", this.ptyOffset);
+        const termSize: TermSize = { rows: this.terminal.rows, cols: this.terminal.cols };
+        console.log("idle timeout term", this.dataBytesProcessed, serializedOutput.length, termSize);
+        services.BlockService.SaveTerminalState(this.blockId, serializedOutput, "full", this.ptyOffset, termSize);
         this.dataBytesProcessed = 0;
     }
 
diff --git a/pkg/service/blockservice/blockservice.go b/pkg/service/blockservice/blockservice.go
index 8dc6d942f..92a6ba149 100644
--- a/pkg/service/blockservice/blockservice.go
+++ b/pkg/service/blockservice/blockservice.go
@@ -38,7 +38,14 @@ func (bs *BlockService) GetControllerStatus(ctx context.Context, blockId string)
 	return bc.GetRuntimeStatus(), nil
 }
 
-func (bs *BlockService) SaveTerminalState(ctx context.Context, blockId string, state string, stateType string, ptyOffset int64) error {
+func (*BlockService) SaveTerminalState_Meta() tsgenmeta.MethodMeta {
+	return tsgenmeta.MethodMeta{
+		Desc:     "save the terminal state to a blockfile",
+		ArgNames: []string{"ctx", "blockId", "state", "stateType", "ptyOffset", "termSize"},
+	}
+}
+
+func (bs *BlockService) SaveTerminalState(ctx context.Context, blockId string, state string, stateType string, ptyOffset int64, termSize waveobj.TermSize) error {
 	_, err := wstore.DBMustGet[*waveobj.Block](ctx, blockId)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -52,7 +59,11 @@ func (bs *BlockService) SaveTerminalState(ctx context.Context, blockId string, s
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("cannot save terminal state: %w", err)
 	}
-	err = filestore.WFS.WriteMeta(ctx, blockId, "cache:term:"+stateType, filestore.FileMeta{"ptyoffset": ptyOffset}, true)
+	fileMeta := filestore.FileMeta{
+		"ptyoffset": ptyOffset,
+		"termsize":  termSize,
+	}
+	err = filestore.WFS.WriteMeta(ctx, blockId, "cache:term:"+stateType, fileMeta, true)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("cannot save terminal state meta: %w", err)
 	}