On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:56:38AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > For historical reasons, my hard drive has now 3 contiguous physical > partitions, all managed by LVM for the same volume group. > > I'd like to get rid of this silliness and turn those 3 partitions into > just 1. I don't have much/any extra space available and I'd rather not > have to resort to backup/format/restore. > > Is there some clever way to do that? Ideally, I should be able to do the > conversion without moving the actual data at all since the same sectors > will be available. I've been in the same situation before and never gotten around to doing anything about it, until I buy a new bigger disk :-) If the partitions are truly contiguous (not DOS extended partitions for instance), then the PEs should all be aligned the same and it ought to be possible, in a similar fashion to what I describe in another thread here. I don't have a pvmerge on my boxes, but then I don't have a pvresize or a pvextend, so maybe I'm missing a few bits :-) does parted do anything with HM LVM ? backups are good :-) Regards, Paddy -- Perl 6 will give you the big knob. -- Larry Wall _______________________________________________ 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/
