On Oct 17, 2001 21:24 +0200, FEJF wrote: > is it possible to tell the lvmtools (when shrinking a lvm-volume with > resizereiserfs and lvreduce) which hd should be used for free space and which > should stay in the lvm ? No. When you reduce the size of an LV, the free space is made from the end of the LV only. If you want to make a particular PV free, then you need to use "pvmove" to free any PEs that are allocated on it. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert