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From: Momesso Andrea <momesso.andrea@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing physical volume for lvm.
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:03:14
Message-Id: 20090322220007.7ffe7eb4@revolver
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing physical volume for lvm. by Alan McKinnon
1 On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:35:35 +0200
2 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On Sunday 22 March 2009 22:15:14 Momesso Andrea wrote:
5 > > My current setup is:
6 > >
7 > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
8 > > /dev/sda1 * 1 2894 23246023+ 83 Linux
9 > > /dev/sda2 2895 3381 3911827+ 82 Linux
10 > > swap /Solaris
11 > > /dev/sda3 3382 24804 172080247+ 83 Linux
12 > > /dev/sda4 24805 30401 44957902+ 83 Linux
13 > >
14 > > where sda3 is an lvm volume and sda4 is free space.
15 > >
16 > > I'd like to to merge sda3 and sda4 into a single partition without
17 > > losing the data on it, but I'm not sure if it is possible.
18 > >
19 > > My guess is that I can use fdisk to delete sda4 and sda3, create a
20 > > sda3 partition starting at 3382 and ending at 30401, then use
21 > > pvresize to enlarge it.
22 >
23 > Correct. That's all there is to it.
24 >
25 > > This is from man pvresize:
26 > > "Expand the PV on /dev/sda1 after enlarging the partition with
27 > > fdisk: pvresize /dev/sda1"
28 > >
29 > > Is that going to work or I'm going to lose all the data?
30 >
31 > Your data is safe if you do exactly the steps you said above.
32 >
33 pvresize /dev/sda3
34 /dev/sda3: too many metadata areas for pvresize
35
36 Looks like I cannot expand it...
37
38 ---
39 TopperH
40 http://topperh.blogspot.com

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