Is it possible to reduce the size of a physical volume? I have a 20-GB partition set up as LVM, and an instance of Gentoo inside it, all of which works fine. I wanted to check out Mandrake 9.2, so I set up a "mandrake" logical volume, but Mandrake doesn't seem to support LVM (at least not installing to it - it did recognize what the partition was, and even how full it was, but didn't give me any way to select an individual logical volume within it.) I rebooted back into Gentoo, figuring to reduce the size of the LVM partition by several gigabytes, and I can't find a way to do it. (I suppose if I got really, really brave I could delete the partition with fdisk and add it back starting at the same point, but ending sooner, but I'm _not_ that brave (or foolish, depending). If the answer is "No, you can't", any recommendations on how to allocate things so that I don't get burned by this again? Only thought I've had is several smaller partitions, each of which is a PV to LVM. You couldn't let go of a precise amount of space (especially since number-of-partition limits mean your partitions may have to be a few GB each), but it would be better than the position I _think_ I'm in now, which is "screwed to the wall". I'm not subscribed to the list, so please CC any replies to: clacour (at-sign) greyhound.com Thanks in advance, Charles Lacour _______________________________________________ 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/
