Shrink Server 2008 HDD

[hotwired007]

i have a server 2008 box that has a 160GB hdd, i want to reduce this to 40GB as the 160GB is over kill and takes ages to backup.

i have shrunk the disk in the windows server but how do i shrink the associated disk? (Its stored in a LVM on a iSCSI share)

 

[tom]

take a look on this wiki page, http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Resizing_disks

 

[hotwired007]

im assuming to reduce the HDD size u use:


lvresize -L-1G /dev/xxxxxx/diskimage

 

[tom]

instead of reducing you can also copy the partition from the big virtual disk to a new virtual disk, less risk as you do not touch original data.

then you just boot from the new disk. to copy the partition from local disk to local disk, use clonezilla live-cd.

you can also to a backup restore to a new disk, using the win2008 backup system.