On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 02:36:06PM +0200, Kai Weber wrote: > On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 01:32:43PM +0200, Anders Widman wrote: > > > Why would you want to do that? One of the major benefits with LVM is > > that you do not have to divide your physical disks into partitions, > > but to do that through LVM. Also, performance-wise it is not a good > > idea to do what you suggested. > > I have removed Windows from a partition. So it is now empty and could be > used an included in the VG. If it's possible to resize the partitions... > > /dev/hda7 1923 2520 4803403+ 8e Linux LVM > /dev/hda8 2521 3198 5446003+ 8e Linux LVM > /dev/hda9 3199 9729 52460226 8e Linux LVM > > /dev/hda7 is VG system, /dev/hda9 is VG data and /dev/hda8 the new and > empty partition. I have no space to backup /dev/hda9 for merging hda8 > and hda9. There seems to be no "pvresize" for LVM1. > Sounds perfectly reasonable to me, that's pretty much what I have, though without the shame of previously having windows on the machine :-) PV /dev/sda7 VG vg00 lvm1 [20.00 GB / 0 free] PV /dev/sda8 VG vg00 lvm1 [9.89 GB / 0 free] PV /dev/sdb1 VG vg00 lvm1 [34.18 GB / 3.18 GB free] ...and yes, I swap to an LV too... patrick _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
