Sam Sharpe lists.red...@samsharpe.net writes:
On 5 February 2011 20:53, Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org wrote:
JFTR, unfortunately PVs cannot be made smaller. The whole idea of LVM is
to do all the resize operations *within* the containers.
JFTR, unfortunately, you'll need to raise a bug
On 5 February 2011 22:15, Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org wrote:
You can shrink a PV, but you will loose the extents that are stored in
the space that you have truncated. I don't consider that resizing.
That's interesting. I do consider it resizing... It's not the function
of the pvresize
Once upon a time, Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org said:
You can shrink a PV, but you will loose the extents that are stored in
the space that you have truncated. I don't consider that resizing.
Changing the size of something is called resizing.
Unfortunately, pvmove can only move extends to
http://fedorasolved.org/Members/zcat/shrink-lvm-for-new-partition
Does that link have the information for handling the physical resizing?
I had used the LVM option in the past, but have gone to making regular
partitions on install, but do have some machines with old LVM setups.
