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 j0O0PCO11833 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 19:25:12 -0500 Received: from bluebottle-fe0.bluebottle.com (bluebottle-fe0.bluebottle.com [67.107.78.242]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j0O0P6E2006320 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 19:25:06 -0500 Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:26:32 +0000 From: Robin Green Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Reducing/Resizing LVM where "/" filesystem is included in the LVM Message-ID: <20050124002632.GA23702@pob> References: <1106517355.26963.213384700@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1106517355.26963.213384700@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: To: LVM general discussion and development --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > 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 cou= ld 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=3D/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 syst= em, from a different computer, it can cause the OS to become very confused as i= t cannot determine which "/boot"-labelled partition to use! That is the disadvantage= of partition labelling. --=20 Robin --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB9EC4tPCt67UksSYRAqi4AJ9RsYefaHkvamU/JZvFG2OVkgheXwCgt6wE VNySu5aj3fPDSOt+o5BmF14= =wZj/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz--