On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 07:35:18PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> 4. Shrink the partition. (I'm comfortable with fdisk, but gparted is > >> the recommendation I've heard the most.) > >If I don't do this, will there be spare space unformatted after I do the > >first two steps? > > It will be "unformatted" as soon as you run resize2fs. (I think; LVM might > use some space at the end of a pv.) > > However, this space is still "claimed" by LVM, and it will fail or, at > least, complain if that space is not available to it. You must reduce the > size of the physical volume to prevent LVM from expecting that space to be > available. (It will still claim the device, so you'll be unable to reload > the partition table while the vg that the pv is in is active.)
Thanks Boyd, I understand it now. Regards, -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org