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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20110126/0f23301f/attachment-0004.html>