[CentOS-virt] Resizing EXT3 partition in guest instance CentOS5

Sun Feb 6 18:39:18 UTC 2011
Poh Yong Hwang <yongsan at gmail.com>

Hi,

I have an issue. I have already resize the partition using Gparted. Now how
can i resize the actual image size in virtual manager? I do not see any
option for me to change the size of the allocated hard disk.

Please advise.

Thanks!

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Poh Yong Hwang <yongsan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Great! Thanks for the quick response. I will try it out then. Yes. I do
> have backup for the host as well as the guest nodes. :)
>
> Regards
> yongsan
>
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Lorenzo Quatrini <
> lorenzo.quatrini at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Poh Yong Hwang ha scritto:
>> > 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
>> >
>> > 1) Boot first VM using Knoppix
>> > 2) Reduce the ext3 partition disk size using Gparted
>> > 3) Shutdown the VM and resize the diskspace using Virtual Manager
>> > 4) Increae the diskspace of the second VM using Virtual Manager
>> > 5) Boot up second VM using Knoppix
>> > 6) Increase the ext3 partition disk size using Gparted
>> > 7) 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
>> >
>> I guess it would work, but just in case remember: do backup beforehand :D
>>
>> Regards
>> Lorenzo
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