On 11/14/2010 11:07 AM, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 10:38 -0800, John Reiser wrote: >> On 11/13/2010 03:41 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> >>> Anyway, I think LVM is jolly useful: >> [stated advantages snipped] >> >> One design error is that you cannot "carve out" an ordinary partition >> from an LVM. Once a portion of the drive is LVM, then that portion of >> the drive is LVM forever until the LVM is completely gone. > > That's not true. You can shrink the PV with pvresize and then create > any desired partitions in the resulting space. Or did you mean > something different? When I created 14 partitions using a DOS partition label (3 primaries, plus extended containing 10 logical partitions) and gave 6 of the partitions to an LVM setup, then I could not remove one of the partitions from the clutches of the LVM, and use the removed partition for some other purpose (keeping the rest of the LVM going), unless I removed all the LVM from that drive. -- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
