On 5 February 2011 20:53, Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> Ugh. So I have hundreds of free GBs in my LVM VGs, but I won't be able >>> to install Fedora? Is there no way around this? >> >> Well you have two options I think, >> >> 1. the obvious first, resize your LVMs to free 500 MB and use it as >> Â Â/boot > > JFTR, unfortunately PVs cannot be made smaller. The whole idea of LVM is > to do all the resize operations *within* the containers. JFTR, unfortunately, you'll need to raise a bug against the pvresize manpage then... http://linux.die.net/man/8/pvresize --- Shrink the PV on /dev/sda1 prior to shrinking the partition with fdisk (ensure that the PV size is appropriate for your intended new partition size): pvresize --setphysicalvolumesize 40G /dev/sda1 --- When filing the report, please state why your assertion "for the record" is correct over the maintainer's. -- Sam -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
