On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 08:07 -0700, Craig White wrote: > 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. ---- I'm kind of stuck... I was able to reduce the size of the logical volumes, move the logical volumes so they are adjacent and then reduce the size of the physical LVM but I cannot seem to reduce the partition itself and I'm gathering that this may not be possible. # pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sda2 VG Name VolGroup00 PV Size 95.00 GB / not usable 31.81 MB Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 32768 Total PE 3039 Free PE 127 Allocated PE 2912 PV UUID oAYcCQ-5n28-0C6i-1LLE-voCR-E19v-SQYQK0 # fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00086350 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/sda2 14 24792 199037317+ 8e Linux LVM # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/root 88G 54G 30G 65% / /dev/sda1 99M 36M 59M 39% /boot so in the end, /dev/sda2 remains approximately 200G and even the gpartd-liveCD cannot resize /dev/sda2 ;-( Is it even possible? Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
