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From: Ilya Goldin <goldin+@pitt.edu>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: [linux-lvm] shrink pv without pvresize (FC3 LVM)
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:55:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41BA294D.5090605@pitt.edu> (raw)

I did something stupid, and I need help.

The goal is to have a single hard drive with four partitions: NTFS,
FAT32 (/home), swap, and LVM ext3 (/). What I have now is NTFS, Swap,
and one LVM VG that contains both / and /home, and both are ext3.

First,

# pvresize
Command not implemented yet.

Is there a workaround (short of writing pvresize)?

Second, I had a feeble hope that Windows XP (booted off the NTFS
partition) would deign to see a FAT32 LV under LVM. That is, if I change
/home to be FAT32, Windows might see it, so I figured I'd give it a
shot. (Is this futile?)

# mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02
mkdosfs 2.8 (28 Feb 2001)
mkdosfs: Unable to get drive geometry for '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02'

Why can't it get the geometry? Does LVM support FAT32 LVs? Does mkdosfs
support LVM?

Thanks!

             reply	other threads:[~2004-12-10 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-10 22:55 Ilya Goldin [this message]
2004-12-12 17:24 ` [linux-lvm] shrink pv without pvresize (FC3 LVM) Alasdair G Kergon
2004-12-12 17:27   ` Alasdair G Kergon
2004-12-12 17:55 ` Alasdair G Kergon

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