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 iBAMtXr12173 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:55:33 -0500 Received: from mb2i1.ns.pitt.edu (mb2i1.ns.pitt.edu [136.142.11.140]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iBAMtMxg024105 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:55:27 -0500 Received: from [136.142.147.90] by pitt.edu (PMDF V6.2-X27 #30902) with ESMTP id <01LI8QGHUNVS0013H1@mb2i1.ns.pitt.edu> for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:55:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:55:09 -0500 From: Ilya Goldin Message-id: <41BA294D.5090605@pitt.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] shrink pv without pvresize (FC3 LVM) 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; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com 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!