From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Shrinking LVM partition at beginning
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 00:19:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160409231954.GH9081@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160409101245.GB31040@nicku.org>
Outline of the process:
Work out the new layout as best you can.
vgcfgbackup the metadata into a text file.
Update partition table moving the start of the partition, being careful to
respect any alignment restrictions.
Edit the text file based on the new partition start location so that all the
data will be in the same place (so all extent numbers will be smaller by
the same fixed amount, and dev_size and pe_start values will change).
pvcreate with --restorefile and -Zn to format the "new" partition for LVM's
use based on the edited file.
vgcfgrestore from that file.
Alasdair
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-09 23:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-09 10:12 [linux-lvm] Shrinking LVM partition at beginning Nick Urbanik
2016-04-09 17:52 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2016-04-09 23:45 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2016-04-09 23:19 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
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