On Sunday 06 March 2005 15:30, Ajeet Nankani wrote: > I have a /dev/hda6 partition as Linux LVM(8e), its size is around 8GB. > I have one PV(no free PEs in it all are allocated) in this partition. > This PV has a total size of around 7GB. > I have also made sure that this PV is contiguous from the start of the > LVM partition hence it is confirmed that the free 1GB is at the end of > LVM partition. > I want to reduce this Linux LVM(8e) partition and recover this 1GB free > space to create a fat32 partition. > When i tried to print partition table of this /dev/hda6 through gnu > parted, it gave error "Error: Could not detect file system." and so > qtparted does not work either. There's no partition table or filesystem on a LVM partiton. > > Is there anyway to reduce this linux LVM (8e) partition safely? Here are the steps. I hope I won't miss one: lvreduce ..(if You don't have enough free PE) pvmove .. vgreduce .. repartition(fdisk, cfdisk, parted .. ) possible reboot(reread the partition table) pvcreate .. vgextend .. possibly lvextend .. mkdosfs .. Cheers, Delian _______________________________________________ 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/
