On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 01:55:55PM -0800, fromkth+lvm@fastmail.fm wrote: > Now I want to free some space from the linux LVM(hda6) and create a > FAT32 partition as hda7. > > So how to reduce that LVM? I suggest you use qtparted. Basically you need to: 1. Resize / 2. Move the swap volume back so it is adjacent to / (as it is swap, you could just run swapoff, delete the volume, and then recreate it.) 3. Reduce the physical volume size I don't know if qtparted can do step 3 but it can do steps 1 and 2, I think. > one more questions my /boot parition is /dev/hda5 but in fstab it shows > it as LABEL=/boot > so how is that? /dev/hda5 contains a label called /boot. That means if you move /boot to a different partition, you don't have to change your fstab, which is useful, but rarely. However, if you ever insert another Linux-formatted hard drive in your system, from a different computer, it can cause the OS to become very confused as it cannot determine which "/boot"-labelled partition to use! That is the disadvantage of partition labelling. -- Robin
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