On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Poh Yong Hwang <yongsan at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> > CentOS-virt mailing list >> >> > CentOS-virt at centos.org >> >> > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> >> 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... >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Linux User #452368 >> >> http://twitter.com/vpadro >> >> >> >> "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an >> >> understanding of ourselves" >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> CentOS-virt mailing list >> >> CentOS-virt at centos.org >> >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > CentOS-virt mailing list >> > CentOS-virt at centos.org >> > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt >> > >> > >> >> What are you using to virtualize those VMs? >> >> -- >> Linux User #452368 >> http://twitter.com/vpadro >> >> "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an >> understanding of ourselves" >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS-virt mailing list >> CentOS-virt at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > > I can only think of creating a smaller qcow file, clonning using dd the contents of the oversized qcow/raw HD to that newly qcow file...although is not the best solution. Maybe someone else could bring a better solution because there's no much info on KVM just a little under Xen... :( -- Linux User #452368 http://twitter.com/vpadro "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves"