[CentOS-virt] How do I reduce a disk size of a particular VM?

Poh Yong Hwang yongsan at gmail.com
Fri Aug 27 05:31:27 EDT 2010


Hi,

Using KVM, qemu.

Thanks!

Yongsan

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Victor Padro <vpadro at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Poh Yong Hwang <yongsan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > But I would like the diskspace to be release to the hardware node so that
> i
> > can create another VM as my hardware node is running out of diskspace. I
> > presume that using Gpart only reduce the diskspace on the VM but it will
> not
> > be release to the hardware node?
> > Thanks!
> > YongSan
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Victor Padro <vpadro at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Poh Yong Hwang <yongsan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> > As per subject, is there a way to reduce diskspace for a VM. I have a
> VM
> >> > with 200GB but would like to reduce the diskspace to 100GB.
> >> > Please advise.
> >> > Thanks!
> >> > Yongsan
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> >> Perhaps shriking the partition using gparted inside the VM?
> >>
> >> Otherwise I can't figure out how to shrink a raw, qcow file under KVM
> >> for example...
> >>
> >>
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> What are you using to virtualize those VMs?
>
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