This is my first post, and although I have researched the archives, I didn't find the right answers to my questions below. I have an existing SuSE 8.1 setup using two disks: /dev/hda (40G) -- one single partition containing the root file system and the complete Linux installation /dev/hde (120G) -- pure data disk (one huge data partition & one small swap partition). Q1: Now I want to add another data disk to my system and would like both, that new disk and my existing 120G disk to be logically combined so that they appear as only one disk. I understand that this is where LVM comes into play. Can I convert my existing, full 120G drive to be using LVM in conjunction with the new drive, or will I have to reformat/repartition it first? Q2: I am afraid to convert my root fs on /dev/hda to LVM, so that currently is out of the question. But can I resize my 40G hdd, say, to only have 20G for the Linux installation, and combine the remaining 20G together with the two data disks to one single logical volume? Thanks for any help. I am still learning about what LVM can do for me, have read the Howto but still have tons of questions left. Thanks Jan _______________________________________________ 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/
