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Resize LVM?

Bluemouse
07-01-2007, 02:39 AM
Hey,

I have a LVM partition that takes up WAAAY too much space (499 gigs). How would I resize it (physical and logical) to use like 10 gigs and give me the remaining 489 gigs as NTFS or something?

Are there any tools? I really would prefer to not have to uninstall/reinstall stuff, because I JUST got my darn linux to boot properly though vista boot loader, and it is still a bit confusing :) (Using Fedora 7)

Thanks!

Nodsu
07-02-2007, 04:35 AM
LVM is much, much more complicated than just "partitions"..

http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/04/resizing-logical-volumes.html

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Bluemouse
07-02-2007, 04:09 PM
Thanks for the article, but I thought the default was ext3 and not ext2 for Fedora 7?

What would I do with that? Or does it not matter? Also, where would the Boot Loader be installed by default?

And in the article, what would my_vol_grp amd my_logical_vol be? (Sorry, rather new to this)

Thanks!

Nodsu
07-03-2007, 03:28 AM
If you bothered to read the resize2fs manual, you'd see that it resizes both ext2 and ext3 filesystems.

Sorry, I son't use RedHat and friends much and even if I do, I use the traditional partitioning instead of LVM. Maybe someone else can tell you how the LVM volumes are named by default..

Bluemouse
07-03-2007, 03:49 PM
I would have read the resize2fs manual if I knew there WAS a manual....

Anyone know the names?

Thanks!

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