On 02/06/2013 06:10 PM, fakhreddine HABIB wrote:
Hi,
I nead please your help to create a physical partition from a logical
partition.
I present my problem : I have the configuration (attached pic) of the
partitions.
I use the centos system. The problem that my group volume "vg_rega" use
the whole of the physical disk. I want to install Ubuntu system with centos
(dual boot), but i need a physical partition to do that. How can'i convert
the " Unused Space " logical partition to physical partition to install
Ubuntu.
1st: backup your data! Though operations should be safe, there is always
human factor and other risks.
Before creating a new partition you will need to resize (shrink) the PV:
pvresize --pvresize --setphysicalvolumesize DESIRED_PV_SIZE /dev/sda2
pvresize should be safe: it will only shrink PV when there is free space
at the end, but does not relocate LVs if the free space is in the
middle. In that case you will need to move the extents first:
pvmove --alloc anywhere /dev/sda2:OLDSTART-OLDEND /dev/sda2
This may not work correctly and allocate data in the region being moved
from (which needs to verify with latest version and report)
Then you should be able to shrink the sda2 partition, using parted or
fdisk. This may be the riskiest part.
However, Ubuntu is able to use Logical Volumes, so you should not need
to add more physical partitions: for me "dualboot" of 2 linux systems
with single /boot partition worked mostly fine - except when one is
using old grub (CentOS) and another grub2 (ubuntu), but even that is not
impossible...
-- Marian
Thank you.
F.H
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