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My current setup is: |
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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/dev/sda1 * 1 2894 23246023+ 83 Linux |
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/dev/sda2 2895 3381 3911827+ 82 Linux |
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swap /Solaris |
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/dev/sda3 3382 24804 172080247+ 83 Linux |
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/dev/sda4 24805 30401 44957902+ 83 Linux |
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where sda3 is an lvm volume and sda4 is free space. |
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I'd like to to merge sda3 and sda4 into a single partition without |
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losing the data on it, but I'm not sure if it is possible. |
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My guess is that I can use fdisk to delete sda4 and sda3, create a sda3 |
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partition starting at 3382 and ending at 30401, then use pvresize to |
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enlarge it. |
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This is from man pvresize: |
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"Expand the PV on /dev/sda1 after enlarging the partition with fdisk: |
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pvresize /dev/sda1" |
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Is that going to work or I'm going to lose all the data? |
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P.S. I'm not using vgextend to simply add sda4 to the lvm because I |
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might want to migrate my root (sda1) to ext4, and to do so I will need |
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to split it in two separate partitions (/boot using ext3 and / using |
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ext4). This way I'm not going to need extended partitions. |
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TopperH |
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http://topperh.blogspot.com |
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