Yes, it will, works all the time with me but using SysrescueCD. But don't forget to backup your data before the resizing, any operation with disk partitions may lost data. 2011/1/26 Poh Yong Hwang <yongsan at gmail.com> > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > > -- Lucas Timm, Goiânia/GO. http://timmerman.wordpress.com (62) 8198-0867 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20110126/ec744753/attachment-0006.html>