On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>
> Oh, I didn't know about that. It seems that this thread finally produced
> some useful information as well, thanks!
What an obnoxious so-called thank you! :(
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On 6 February 2011 14:34, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> Chris Adams writes:
>> Once upon a time, Nikolaus Rath 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
Chris Adams writes:
> Once upon a time, Nikolaus Rath 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.
How would you distinguish between the
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.
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Once upon a time, Nikolaus Rath 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 other PVs but no
Sam Sharpe writes:
> On 5 February 2011 22:15, Nikolaus Rath 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 p
On 5 February 2011 22:15, Nikolaus Rath 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 command to move the L
Sam Sharpe writes:
> On 5 February 2011 20:53, Nikolaus Rath 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 against the pvresize
> manpage then...
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