Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing physical volume for lvm.

[Momesso Andrea]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:57:19 +0000
Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:57:08 +0100, Momesso Andrea wrote:
>
> > It looks more like a workaround than a solution. If my non native
> > English understood it well, it suggests to backup everything,
> > recreate the pv for the whole size, and then restore from backup.
>
> Since you currently have plenty of free space, you don't have to take
> the system out of service to do a backup. Create a new PV in sda4 and
> run pvmove, then remove and recreate the PV on sda3 and pvmove the
> data back. Then you can delete sda4 and enlarge sda3.
>
>

Since, as Alan suggested, I enlarged sda3 with fdisk, how can I have
back my old sda4 without risking to lose the data?

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