Hi,
I’m looking to prepare my system for an OpenVZ installation.
Currently the system has LVM setup with a single “group volume” and two (2) “logical volumes”.
All disk space has been allocated to the LVM volumes, and I want to resize the “root” partition so that I can create a new “vz” partition as recommended by the OpenVZ documentation.
My concern is that I do not want to murder my file system in the process.
I have a 160GB drive installed, with 140GB allocated to the “root” partition (the remainig is between “swap” and the “boot” partitions respectively).
I am utilizing 30GB of the “root” partition, as I have VMware Server currently installed, with a few VPS instances.
The goal is to:
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resize the “root” partition
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create the “vz” partition with sufficient space
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install OpenVZ
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create new VPS instances under OpenVZ
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remove all traces of VMware Server
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and finally resizing the “root” and “vz” partition once the 30GB footprint created by VMware Server VPS instances have been removed.
I’d appreciate some assistance in accomplishing this massive goal.
*** NOTE: I only have a single physical machine, and while I expect a bit of downtime due to the migration process, I’d like to minimize it as much as possible. ***
Thanks in advance!