From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from agk.surrey.redhat.com (agk.surrey.redhat.com [172.16.10.74]) by pobox.surrey.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id jBCFLQBM018510 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:21:26 GMT Received: from agk by agk.surrey.redhat.com with local (Exim 4.34) id 1ElpUU-00033K-4f for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:21:26 +0000 Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:21:26 +0000 From: Alasdair G Kergon Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Newbie of LVM Message-ID: <20051212152126.GA25866@agk.surrey.redhat.com> References: <20051209033914.33441.qmail@web32605.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4399D72B.80408@mattgillen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4399D72B.80408@mattgillen.net> 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" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: LVM general discussion and development On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 02:12:43PM -0500, Matthew Gillen wrote: > Way Loss wrote: > > /dev/md5 153G 119G 27G 82% /www > > My md5 is almost full and I wanna use LVM to merge > > my md5 with a new partition from a new hdd. I wanna > > ask if this possible for LVM to merge 2 partition > > together while one of them have data on it? I can't > > suffer any data loss and want to make sure that LVM > > works perfectly to what I want. > You're out of luck. You can't take an existing partition and keep the > data yet switch it over to LVM. See also: https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2005-October/msg00110.html Alasdair -- agk@redhat.com