Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Mike Williams <mike@××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] lvm2 resize and loading
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:24:25
Message-Id: 200710212011.49112.mike@gaima.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] lvm2 resize and loading by Beso
1 On Sunday 21 October 2007 19:57:44 Beso wrote:
2 > i have some little issues with my lvm volumes. i passed today to lvm2 and i
3 > had some problems at first with their loading (i had to put /sin/vgchange
4 > -a y into the modules service which started at boot) but that let's say
5 > it's resolved. i've later seen that i have a small partition with only 1gb
6 > of free space, and i'd like to resize it. i have the lvm filled but i have
7 > another partition that is empty. so i can resize it down and then resize
8 > the other. the filesystem i use is reiserfs v3.6 with r5 hash and ordered
9 > mode. i have the tail option enabled also.
10 > is there a way to fix the first problem and to resize the partitions in a
11 > safe way?!
12
13 resize_reiserfs -snewsmallersizeG /dev/vgblah/lvlarge
14 lvresize -LnewsmallersizeG /dev/vgblah/lvlarge
15 lvresize -LnewlargersizeG /dev/vgblah/lvsmall
16 resize_reiserfs -snewlargersizeG /dev/vgblah/lvsmall
17
18 Both -s and -L take + and - sizes to increase or decrease the size.
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