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