[PVE-User] Shrink qemu raw image...
Eneko Lacunza
elacunza at binovo.es
Mon Jun 22 15:14:57 CEST 2015
What about:
vgs
sfdisk -l <your disk path>
El 22/06/15 a las 15:05, Gilberto Nunes escribió:
> Ok guys...
>
> All those steps I already perform...
> I can shrink fs+partition+lvm inside the guest... Everything is ok!
> But, when I perform this:
>
> qemu-img resize vm.raw -3100G
>
> the guest crash!
>
> The raw image, on Proxmox fs has 3,9 TB...
> Inside the guest, I have this:
>
> df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/vg_bancosiscobra-lv_root
> 50G 4,7G 43G 11% /
> tmpfs 939M 0 939M 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda2 485M 67M 393M 15% /boot
> /dev/mapper/vg_bancosiscobra-lv_home
> 640G 540G 68G 89% /home
>
> With the qemu-img resize command showing above, I managed to shrink
> raw image to 800GB, more than sufficient to boot the machine...
> But no way! I get error inside the guest...
>
> My next shot will be this tutorial:
>
> http://dnaeon.github.io/resizing-a-kvm-disk-image-on-lvm-the-easy-way/
>
> 2015-06-22 9:57 GMT-03:00 Yannis Milios <yannis.milios at gmail.com
> <mailto:yannis.milios at gmail.com>>:
>
> First try to shrink fs+partition+lvm inside guest vm with gparted
> as Lindsay suggested.
>
> Reboot the VM to check if resize completed successfully.
> Check actual fs+partition+lvm sizes inside VM and verify their
> total size.
>
> Shutdown VM and try to resize raw disk so that the total size is
> bigger at least some MB than the actual size.
>
> For example if actual size is 1Tb resize it to 1.2-1.3 Tb just to
> be safe.
>
> Try booting the VM again.
>
> On 22 Jun 2015 13:37, "Gilberto Nunes" <gilberto.nunes32 at gmail.com
> <mailto:gilberto.nunes32 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> So, inside the VM I managed to reduce the LVM and the
> Filesystem...
> But, when I try to use qemu-img resize, perhaps I mistake
> something, because the crash down in kernel panic, 'cause not
> found and partitions, even the LVM!
>
> Are you sure that gparted live iso is safe???
>
> Thanks
>
> 2015-06-22 9:25 GMT-03:00 Lindsay Mathieson
> <lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com
> <mailto:lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com>>:
>
> 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
> <mailto: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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