On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Tait Clarridge <tait@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I am about to buy a 60GB SSD to replace my netbook's current 160GB drive > and wanted to get some feedback whether the process I am thinking of > taking to resize the drives will work properly. > > So here goes: > My volume group in this example is called: vg_taitsvolume > The logical volume (root) being resized is: lv_root > The physical volume is: /dev/sda2 > > Current Partition Sizes: > > /boot - 200M - formatted ext3 > swap - 4GB - swap > / - 145GB - formatted ext4 > > There is only ~8GB in use on the / fs > > Boot into a LiveCD > > e2fsck -f /dev/vg_taitsvolume/lv_root > resize2fs -p /dev/vg_taitsvolume/lv_root 30G > lvreduce --size 30G vg_taitsvolume/lv_root --test > lvreduce --size 30G vg_taitsvolume/lv_root > > pvresize --setphysicalvolumesize 40G /dev/sda2 Everything looks good to this point as far as I can tell (from memory) > > (I chose 40GB to keep it away from the maximum of 60GB so there are no > issues with block sizes/sectors) > > use gparted to resize /dev/sda2 to 40G > > dd to smaller drive These steps should not be necessary as part of the advantage if LVM[1] is moving the LV's around. > > use gparted to resize /dev/sda2 to maximum allowed > > pvresize /dev/sda2 > lvextend /dev/vg_hornet/lv_root /dev/sda2 > e2fsck -f /dev/vg_hornet/lv_root > resize2fs /dev/vg_hornet/lv_root > > > So, will this work? Are there any steps I can take out? I haven't really > played with LVM before (at all) so I thought I would come up with my own > steps through the man pages and put it to the list to see if anyone has > either completed what I need to do, or has any tips. > > I will be backing up the important files so if something goes wrong it > is not a problem, but kind of an annoyance. > > Thanks, > Tait Richard [1] http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/recipemovevgtonewsys.html -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
