Hi, I have a somewhat strange question about LVM2 on a Linux 2.6.11 kernel: - When installing a new hard disk, I had to use some partitioning trickery to move my data from the old disk (partitioned and using LVM2) to the new one. As a result, my partition scheme looked like this: - a primary boot partition (not inside a LVM container) - a primary root partition (not inside a LVM container) - an extended partition spanning the rest of the disk -- inside of that a logical partition containing the primary LVM container --- inside this LVM container, my main partitions (/home,/usr,...) - some remaining logical partitions. This partitions were needed during the move, but now they can be killed. I want to use the disk space from the remaining partitions for the one and only LVM2 container. If I add the partitions as new PVs, I can use the space alright, but I also lose some MBs due to these partitions not being exactly right sized (sorry, bad english, I know :-(). So I want to know if I can just do the following: - remove the partitions not needed anymore - resize the LVM2 partition to use the whole disk - resize the LVM2 container. Is this possible, or is it the smartest move for me to create one logical partition containing the rest of the disk and add that as a new PV, accepting that maybe some MB might be lost? TIA, Wolfgang Liebich _______________________________________________ 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/
