Thanks for the suggestions, but qtparted does not help. I ran Knoppix Live CD 3.7 which has qtparted 0.4.4 and it does not recognizes the linux lvm partition and shows it as unknown type/filesystem in the list, and it does not give any other information or any other option(e.g resize) when i right click that partition. so the question remains how to do it. Thanks. -ajeet. On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:26:32 +0000, "Robin Green" <greenrd@greenrd.org> said: > 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 _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
