RE: Reducing the size of a volume group

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> Subject: RE: Reducing the size of a volume group
> From: chris@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:17:56 -0500
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> On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 21:49 +0000, Chuck Bruno wrote:
> > > If that's the case I would backup whatever personal/important data
> > > from the F14 install and remove all the linux partitions. Then you can
> > > use something like a gparted live CD to resize your NT partition (back
> > > up data from it too first just in case!) and then reinstall F14.
>
> If you have another disk available for temporary use, you could create a
> PV on it and migrate your data to it (vgextend, pvmove, vgreduce),
> rearrange your current disk, and then migrate back. That way you can
> avoid the reinstallation of Fedora.
>
> (Future suggestion: Instead of creating a single large PV on a disk,
> create multiple smaller PVs -- then you can remove just one from your VG
> and assign it to another OS).
>
Thanks for the good advice.  This seems like a workable solution and I'll definately adopt your suggestion about using smaller PV's.
 
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