From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j0OMOjO17516 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:24:45 -0500 Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j0OMOeu3027298 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:24:40 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1106517355.26963.213384700@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20050124002632.GA23702@pob> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Reducing/Resizing LVM where "/" filesystem is included in the LVM In-Reply-To: <20050124002632.GA23702@pob> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:24:40 -0800 From: fromkth+lvm@fastmail.fm Message-Id: <1106605480.13480.213476562@webmail.messagingengine.com> Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com Cc: greenrd@greenrd.org Thanks for the suggestions, but qtparted does not help. I ran Knoppix Live CD 3.7 which has qtparted 0.4.4 and it does not recognizes the linux lvm partition and shows it as unknown type/filesystem in the list, and it does not give any other information or any other option(e.g resize) when i right click that partition. so the question remains how to do it. Thanks. -ajeet. On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:26:32 +0000, "Robin Green" said: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 01:55:55PM -0800, fromkth+lvm@fastmail.fm wrote: > > Now I want to free some space from the linux LVM(hda6) and create a > > FAT32 partition as hda7. > > > > So how to reduce that LVM? > > I suggest you use qtparted. Basically you need to: > > 1. Resize / > 2. Move the swap volume back so it is adjacent to / (as it is swap, you > could just > run swapoff, delete the volume, and then recreate it.) > 3. Reduce the physical volume size > > I don't know if qtparted can do step 3 but it can do steps 1 and 2, I > think. > > > one more questions my /boot parition is /dev/hda5 but in fstab it shows > > it as LABEL=/boot > > so how is that? > > /dev/hda5 contains a label called /boot. That means if you move /boot to > a different > partition, you don't have to change your fstab, which is useful, but > rarely. > > However, if you ever insert another Linux-formatted hard drive in your > system, > from a different computer, it can cause the OS to become very confused as > it cannot > determine which "/boot"-labelled partition to use! That is the > disadvantage of > partition labelling. > > -- > Robin