On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Trond Are Haugland wrote: > Hello people at Sistina! > > Is it possible/safe to resize a physical volume to use > free space _before_ the start block of the pv? > > Thank you so much for creating LVM for Linux, > it absolutely ROCKS :-) > -- > Trond Are Haugland <trondare@trolltech.com> > Trolltech AS > No, its not, pv cannot be expanded or reduced in size, A dirty hack would be to create another PV on the disk, just make sure you speficy pvs when you do striping so you don't strip the same drive ;-) Its fine for concatinated volumes. If you have a spare disk and a little time, create a new pv on your space disk use pvmove to mvoe from your old disk to the temp. vgreduce out the old disks pv, repartion the disk then create a new pv on it. vgexpand to the (old/new disk) then pvmove your data back then vgreduce out your temp disk. I have done this a few times :-) make sure you use latest version of lvm there are some problems with pvmove before that. James _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
