Re: Resize of LVM PV

2010-02-27 Thread Frederick Abrams
Hi, I was afraid someone was going to say that but i was hoping for a more safer method. I think i will take another backup of all my data 1st then do the below suggestion of deleting the /dev/sda2. Thanks Fred On 02/27/2010 09:31 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: Frederick Abrams wrote:

Re: Resize of LVM PV

2010-02-27 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Frederick Abrams wrote: > 1) Rebooted with Fedora 12 in Rescue mode > 2) e2fsck /dev/mapper/vg_fa-lv_root > 3) resize2fs /dev/mapper/vg_fa-lv_root 275G > 4) lvresize -L 250G /dev/vg_fa-lv_root Hmmm, 275G filesystem inside a 250G lv??? You should have done the reverse... Danger. > 5) pvresize --s

Resize of LVM PV

2010-02-27 Thread Frederick Abrams
Hi All, I need some help i have a 500GB disk which when i installed F12 i selected the entire HDD to be used by LVM. I don't need so much HDD for the LVM and I want to shrink the LVM PV to say 300GB and use the rest to install windows to play my games. I have done the below. 1) Rebooted wit