Resize an extended partition with free space

In this guide, we demonstrate how to shrink an LVM volume or partition in Linux by resizing the file system followed by resizing the logical volume.

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.

Reduce LVM Partition on CentOS 7 List Block Devices. List the current block devices lsblk. ... Backup /home. Backup the contents of the /home directory. ... Reduce the Size of the /home Partition. Unmount home umount /dev/mapper/centos-ho

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.

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

I have a Centos 7 VM which was built from an OVA template. I have it running under Virtualbox. Issue I have is the VM has a dynamic disk of 200G - but only 4 ...

You cannot shrink XFS partitions. While I have no problem backing up /home, deleting the partition reallocating the space and recreating /home, and restoring ...

The guide you found separates the file system and volume resize operations, which is unnecessary and makes the operation more dangerous.

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 ...