On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 20:24:40 +0000, "Alasdair G Kergon" <agk@redhat.com> said: > On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:15:48PM -0800, Ajeet Nankani wrote: > > vgcfgbackup which would give me meta file data as below > > > extent_size = 65536 # 32 Megabytes > > > device = "/dev/hda6" # Hint only > > > pe_start = 384 > > pe_count = 266 # 8.3125 Gigabytes > > > extent_count = 192 # 6 Gigabytes > > "pv0", 0 > > 0-191 > > > extent_count = 32 # 1024 Megabytes > > "pv0", 192 > > 192-223 > > > Now here if i edit it and in physical volume section where it says that > > pe_count = 266, i change it to pe_count = 224 which is the last PE used > > by the Logical Volume. > > Yes. > > > after saving it if i run vgcfgrestore with this file, will my PV be > > reduced?? > > That's what pvresize would do. but pvresize says command not implemented yet. also what this "pe_start = 384" in meta data means. Thanks -ajeet. > > > after that i can reduce hda6 with parted or similar utility. > > and the new size is 384 sectors plus 224 extents of 65536 sectors each. > > Alasdair > -- > agk@redhat.com > _______________________________________________ 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/
