Reduce Root File-System With Data in Linux

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?

Your best bet is to backup /home, remove and recreate its volume in a smaller size and give the rest to your /root volume.

Here, we are going to reduce the size of the /home partition and allocate the remaining space back to the root partition.

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.

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) ...

Your best bet is to backup /home, remove and recreate its volume in a smaller size and give the rest to your /root volume.

Decreasing the storage size involves creating a new storage device with the desired size, transferring all data from the old drive to the new one, and then ...

Drag the handles located on the right side of the partition to reduce its size to something slightly smaller than the actual disk size. For example, if the disk ...

How to Reduce LVM Partition Size in Linux (RHEL | Ubuntu) · 1) Create a Backup · 2) Umount the file system · 3) Check Filesystem Integrity · 4) ...

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.