Hello all,
I just faced a laptop problem: How to shrink the FC4
allocated space in order to increase the space on another operating
system. I had used the default LVM.
A trusty knoppix liveCD QTparted knows nothing of LVM, so I tried the
FC4 rescue. After a long time, I found:
* resize2fs shrinks the ext3 / area. OK
* lvm lvreduce shrinks the logical volume (different units)
* lvm pvmove allows me to put all the lvm handled stuff physically
together. More different units.
* vgreduce...fails
I think I was supposed to use vgreduce to shrink the space managed in
the volume group - but I couldn't make it work. It only seems to delete
logical volumes.
Finally I reversed all the above operation. Since they are all in
different units, and I had padded a little to be safe, I had to pad
some more on the way back, and now I have wasted space.
Two questions:
*) How could I have made it work?
*) What benefit is there in lvm on a laptop, when you pretty much know
there will only be 1 disk?
Thank you!
Bill
