Yes, it will, works all the time with me but using SysrescueCD. But don't forget to backup your data before the resizing, any operation with disk partitions may lost data.
2011/1/26 Poh Yong Hwang yongsan@gmail.com
Hi,
I have two guest vm instance running CentOS 5 with ext3 partition. I will like to reduce 1 VM harddisk space and using the 'release' harddisk space to add onto my second VM. Basically I need to know how can I reduce and increase an ext3 partition in CentOS KVM. I did a search and basically i can do it by booting the VM using Knoppix and use Gparted to reduce and increase the diskspace. I am thinking of the following
- Boot first VM using Knoppix
- Reduce the ext3 partition disk size using Gparted
- Shutdown the VM and resize the diskspace using Virtual Manager
- Increae the diskspace of the second VM using Virtual Manager
- Boot up second VM using Knoppix
- Increase the ext3 partition disk size using Gparted
- Reboot the second VM
As this is the first time i am doing it, will these work? Anyone has experience resiziing their EXT3 partition in KVM environment before?
Thanks!
Regards yongsan
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