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Hi,

I have a number of RHEL servers, they are all identical in build and all are encountering disk space issues very frequently. I am hoping you can help me answer a few questions:

1. The servers have 40GB (:O) SWAP Space, I am hoping to reduce this to 10GB at most and then re-use the other 30GB. What is the best way to do this?

2. After doing the above, do I HAVE to create a new partition, or can I extend the existing partitions (I know I can use parted to do this but does it only work for the final partition)?

3. As the servers are virtual I can allocate more disk, I assume this is closely related to question 2- if I can use this to extend existing partitions I will, otherwise I will need to create extra partitions?

I have read quite a few articles around this, mainly from the RHEL knowledge-base and as I have never done this sort of thing before I was hoping for some advice/clarification.

Thanks.

OK, thanks I will maintain a little for the sake of it - I doubt it is used to be used. I will reduce it by 35GB, I already had that article open.

Once the disk space is free'd up, is it it possible to resize any parition: I have been reading this article: https://access.redhat.com/site/docum...size-part.html

When swap is not used on that box, you could turn it off with swapoff to make sure before resizing.