On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 09:07 +0200, Peter Boy wrote: > Am Freitag, den 22.08.2008, 23:05 -0700 schrieb Craig White: > > this as a result of resizing/shrinking /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 down > > from approximately 180 Gb down to 90 Gb (obviously the ext3 filesystem > > was resized first because it's working). > > > > I wanted to create free space in the process to do another install not > > in the LVM but apparently the swap portion /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 is 1 > > Gb and I'm guessing that it has to be moved to be contiguous > > with /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 and that should somehow make the allow the > > rest of the space to be free to be re-used in other ways. > > > > What piece of information am I missing to make the now approx 90Gb free? > > Not shure if I understand you correctly. You modified the *logical* > volumes. This process does not modify the LVM and the physical partition > on the disk (sda1). Now there is space in the LVM to create just another > logical volume, but that is not what you want. > > If you wish to create an additional non-LVM you have to create > a /dev/sda2 which in turn requires to modify (shrink) the /dev/sda1 > partition where the LVM is located. I don't know if there are tools > available to do that in a safe manner. You may check man pvresize > > Regarding swap you may disable swap in fstab and simply delete the lv. > When you are finished you may recreate and enable it. ---- ah...pvresize I have to shrink the physical volume too - light bulb finally on, thanks. I'm downloading gpartd live CD because I think this should make it easy...will report back. Thanks Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
