Managing Disk Partition with the parted Tool in CentOS 7

The idea is to reduce the size of the Centos 7 VM, to only 60GB. It seems the xfs does not shrink. Any workaround to make this happen?

Resize root partition (or how to remove the default /home partition) on CentOS 7 online · Step 1 - Copy /home Contents · Step 2 - Unmount the /home directory.

This started as documenting a procedure and may be used to resize partitions on a machine running CentOS 7.1 or as a guide for others.

Step 1: Copy contents of /home directory · Step 2: Unmount /home · Step 3: Remove the Home LVM Volume · Step 4: Resize/Extend the Root LVM Volume.

There are three steps to make: alter your partition table so sda2 ends at end of disk; reread the partition table (will require a reboot) ...

To increase the size of the /boot partition you need access to a rescue mode: i.e. your server can not boot from the hard drive.

After expanding disk space in your control panel, you need to resize and make the additional space available to CentOS 7.

I wish to increase the CentOS root partition size from 50G to 100G, and decrease from 167G to 115G something. for acheive this I tried fdisk Utility way.

in this video I am going to show you how to extend your root or home directory file system partition using LVM. You might have low storage ...

This article will show you how to resize a disk in Centos. First ssh to your server as root or as a user that can gain root access.