You can use a Gentoo Live CD Am Montag, 29. August 2005 00:16 schrieb Faheem Mitha: > Dear People, > > I have a machine which is running Fedora Core on AMD64. I did not install > this computer myself. The current setup is that that there are two > partitions on the disk, one of them /boot and the other is given to a LVM > volume group. This volume group currently has two logical volumes on it, > swap and root, both using ext3. > > /etc/fstab appears at the bottom of this email. I don't have access to > this machine at this moment, otherwise I would give output of df. > > What I want to do is to shrink the root logical volume, which I assume, > though I'm not sure at the moment, occupies all the svailable space on in > the volume group, along with the swap partition. > > It is apparently possible to resize logical volumes with root mounted on a > running system, but this seems a little too adventurous for my taste. > > However, it seems possible that a live cd exists which can be used to > resize logical volumes, and this would of course have no problem with the > root filesystem of a system that is not running. > > Does anyone have any suggestions about this? Note that it will need to run > a 2.6 kernel, since I need to use lvm2. > > I tried Knoppix, but it does not seem to know about LVM. I'm going to try > the Debian installer, and see if I can get it to do this. > > If people have suggestions, I'd be interested to hear about them. > > Thanks. Faheem. > > ************************************************************************* > # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 > 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 > 2 > /dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 > 0 > /dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 > 0 > /dev/proc /proc proc defaults 0 > 0 > /dev/sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 > 0 > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 > 0 > /dev/scd0 /media/cdrecorder auto > pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 > /dev/hda /media/cdrecorder1 auto > pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- Micha Krause Jabber: SMS-King@jabber.org Email: mailinglist@krausam.de
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