-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Sunday 24 January 2010 11:25:19 vitaminx wrote: >> I'd like to shrink a LVM partition on my harddisk. >> >> Is it possible without any data loss? > > Yes, but it is tricky. > > Check your file systems. Make sure they are clean before the process starts. > > Take backups. > > First make sure you have enough free space in your LVs. Then use a > combination of pvmove and pvresize to shrink your PE that corresponds to that > partition. Then shrink the partition in the partition table.
Shouldn't vitaminx first resize the underlying file system(s)??? - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktdcIoACgkQC1NzPRl9qEV5zwCfaLoEHmIwPef2HNSTMvN4onBk uboAniI9WFx+UBuaxCjepnq55hGr7XEt =BK/V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org