On 10-01-24 14:27:21, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Sunday 24 January 2010 11:25:19 vitaminx wrote: > > I'd like to shrink a LVM partition on my harddisk. > > > > Is it possible without any data loss? > > Yes, but it is tricky. > > Check your file systems. Make sure they are clean before the process > starts. > > Take backups. > > First make sure you have enough free space in your LVs.
VGs. > Then use a > combination of pvmove and pvresize to shrink your PE that corresponds PV > to that partition. Then shrink the partition in the partition table. > > Check your file systems. You may be able to revert any damage done > at this point. > > (Optional) Grow the PE to match the new partition size (e.g. if PV > there's lack > at the end you left.) Grow LVs based on newly available space. > > Check your file systems. This should be very quick. Growing is a > lot less tricky that shrinking, but it still has to be done in the > right order. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynel...@georgeanelson.com> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
