Hi Andrew, you can try to pvmove all LVs allocated on /dev/hda4 to /dev/hdb2, looks to me there is only problem with space for 10GB of LV, that you can solve with resize_reisefs or resize2fs, then lvreduce. Then u can remove /dev/hda4 from VG and end up with 35GB of free space on hda. On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 18:08:41 -0600, Andrew Konosky <TerranAce007@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have two 80gb hard drives, and use one ~35gb LVM physical volume on > /dev/hda4 and one ~75gb LVM physical volume on /dev/hdb2. My /boot > partition is /dev/hdb1 in ext3 and my / is mounted on > VolGroup00/LogVol00 in ext3 also. I want to reduce the 75gb hdb2 to free > up about 25gb so I can have room to install and try out some other linux > distros. > > I have searched online for insructions, but all I can find is stuff on > resizing reiser and ext2 partitions. I am not sure if I need to resize > the LVM voume on hdb2 first, and then the filesystem, or if I do it the > other way around. What commands do I run to do this? > > I want to end up with about 25gb free space to install Debian 3.1 on. > And also, how do I configure the grub bootloader for Debian? I would > like to keep Fedora's grub as is, and just add one entry for Debian that > launches a separate grub menu with Debian and its different kernel > versions. Would I just install grub on the new partition? What entry do > I make in Fedora's grub.conf? > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- Petr Novak
