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

Fri Aug 27 09:30:38 UTC 2010
Victor Padro <vpadro at gmail.com>

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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