On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:35:35 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 22 March 2009 22:15:14 Momesso Andrea wrote: > > My current setup is: > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/sda1 * 1 2894 23246023+ 83 Linux > > /dev/sda2 2895 3381 3911827+ 82 Linux > > swap /Solaris > > /dev/sda3 3382 24804 172080247+ 83 Linux > > /dev/sda4 24805 30401 44957902+ 83 Linux > > > > where sda3 is an lvm volume and sda4 is free space. > > > > I'd like to to merge sda3 and sda4 into a single partition without > > losing the data on it, but I'm not sure if it is possible. > > > > My guess is that I can use fdisk to delete sda4 and sda3, create a > > sda3 partition starting at 3382 and ending at 30401, then use > > pvresize to enlarge it. > > Correct. That's all there is to it. > > > This is from man pvresize: > > "Expand the PV on /dev/sda1 after enlarging the partition with > > fdisk: pvresize /dev/sda1" > > > > Is that going to work or I'm going to lose all the data? > > Your data is safe if you do exactly the steps you said above. > pvresize /dev/sda3 /dev/sda3: too many metadata areas for pvresize Looks like I cannot expand it... --- TopperH http://topperh.blogspot.com
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