On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 23:21 +0200, Nitai @ ComputerOil wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a huge problem, with that I installed on a 25GB Partiton WinXP > and then run the FC3 installer. With disk Druid I made a partition for > swap (2GB), one for /boot, one for /home (10GB) and another for / > (10GB). So, this made up another 25GB of my HardDisk. > > Now the problem ist that I have a 80GB HardDisk and that I have another > FreeSpace of 29GB which I somehow cant access anymore, because the Linux > Installer made the /, swap and /home to a LVM Volume. > > Does anymore know how I can get the remaining 29GB back? Better would be > to have them as Fat32 partitioned so I can access them with WinXP. > > df -h shows me: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 9.7G 4.7G 4.5G 51% / > /dev/hda2 99M 13M 82M > 13% /boot > none 506M 0 > 506M 0% /dev/shm > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02 9.7G 238M 9.0G 3% /home > > vgdisplay: > > --- Volume group --- > VG Name VolGroup00 > System ID > Format lvm2 > Metadata Areas 1 > Metadata Sequence No 4 > VG Access read/write > VG Status resizable > MAX LV 0 > Cur LV 3 > Open LV 3 > Max PV 0 > Cur PV 1 > Act PV 1 > VG Size 50.00 GB > PE Size 32.00 MB > Total PE 1600 > Alloc PE / Size 688 / 21.50 GB > Free PE / Size 912 / 28.50 GB > VG UUID 01CpwZ-IX2i-l55R-a4uF-ZYmG-VmSq-IbJmGR > > > Any good ideas? Thank you. The extra space is available in the volume group for expansion of any of the volumes in that group. So you could easily expand your / or /home volumes to be bigger. However, I don't know of any easy way to reduce the size of your LVM partition so that you can use the space for a regular partition that XP could use, at least not without reinstalling or temporarily borrowing another hard disk to move the data on to. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
