[PVE-User] Shrink qemu raw image...

Lindsay Mathieson lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com
Mon Jun 22 14:25:32 CEST 2015


Use the GPartEd Live ISO (http://gparted.org/download.php) to resize the
LVM *and* the partiton, then qemu-img to shrink it.



On 22 June 2015 at 21:50, Gilberto Nunes <gilberto.nunes32 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys
>
> I was able to reduce LVM and root/home partition inside a certain VM,
> runnning on Proxmox.
> The VM has raw image.
> This image was 4 TB of size..
> But, when I try using command:
>
> qemu-img resize vm.raw -XXXXG
>
> The VM get crash! No partition remain....
>
> So I thought use virt-resize to make this operation....
> I can use perhaps, other host, with virt-manager and other virt tools
> installed, shrink the raw image with virt-resize and get use the resulting
> image to new VM on Proxmox...
>
> Or, maybe you guys, has another solution...??
>
> Thanks
>
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> Gilberto Ferreira
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> Skype: gilberto.nunes36
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