[Leaplist] gparted and KVM quetjuns'

[Whit Hansell]

Hey,

I've used gparted before but have forgotten what I did and haven't used 
KVM yet....  I.ve got it installed  but have to set up sufficient 
"storage" drive space for the new virtual Windows XP OS(guest).

Wanting to use KVM to run a couple 'doze apps on my Debian AMD64 box.  
 From what I can tell, it's normal to use /var as the place to set up 
the "KVM storage area."  If that's the case I need to increase the size 
of the partition where /var resides.

4G RAM and 250G SATA

This is my df -h result:

whit at greatstar:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             662M  252M  376M  41% /
tmpfs                     1.9G     0        1.9G   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                       10M 1008K   9.1M  10% /dev
tmpfs                     1.9G     0        1.9G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda9              216G   43G    163G  21% /home
/dev/sda8              373M   12M   342M   4% /tmp
/dev/sda5               4.6G   3.7G   726M  84% /usr
/dev/sda6               2.8G  402M    2.3G  16% /var

My swap partition is /dev/sda7   5.0G

I need to move free space(40G??) from /dev/sda9(home) all the way down thru
/dev/sda8, /dev/sda7(swap) to /dev/sda6(/var) and also increase my /usr 
partition
by another 2G too, which is on /dev/sda5.

I know I have to move the "new storage area free space" down thru the 
various partitions but wondered if I can bypass the swap partition, or 
not?  I think i already know the answer which is yes, but just wanted 
verification.

Also, for you who have set up KVM successfully, is /var, the best place 
to put it or would it work OK if I just bypassed all this gparted stuff 
and stuck it in /home?

I've "Googled so much about gparted and KVM but just can't find answers 
to these specific question.

One other question.  This one regarding setting up Windows XP.  Do I 
need to let the install program format the storage space or ignore 
formatting and just do the install of  the basic OS?   I'm sorry but I'm 
lost on how this works w. my linux partition set up as ext3 and trying 
to install Windows on it.

As to the 40G I want to move from /home to /var, it's just a guess.  I 
figured I might want to also do an FC linux guest too for grins so 
figured a full 40 would be good.  Any recommendations will be appreciated.

TIA for any information you can give.  This Virtualization stuff in 
interesting and I'd like to learn it.  Thanks again.
Whit




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