I've tried to resize a "/" partition using information from the thread
below after booting from the FC3 DVD with linux rescue.
I ran the lvm lvscan, then lvm vgchange -ay, and then did the resize
command to change the partition from 35GB to 30GB. It is using no
more than 12GB of space. This was a test machine, and was to see
if it would work. It gave a warning message, but it being a test
machine, was no problem. Unfortunately, after rebooting the
machine had a kernel panic with an inodees error message.
The reason that I want to be able to resize the partition, is that I
have another machine with a AMD64 3000+ CPU and a 250GB
drive with FC3 as well. In the default installation, it setup the drive
with the boot and "/" partitions. System works fine, but it is used to
do backups of other systems on the network, and these are about
15GB files for each lab. I want to be able to backup the root partition
of this machine as well, but with the 200+GB partition, it doesn't
work well. I would like to redo the machine in a way to have the
directory for the images as a separate partition. I've been able to
add a 70GB drive, and have it map to another directory in the
manner that I would like to do with this 250GB drive.
Can this be done with LVM. I've used presizer in the past, and also
partition magic with windows. I'm sure it can be done, but I have
found it yet. Thanks again.
The message where I got the info I thought would have worked.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-
February/msg03477.html
lvm lvscan
lvm vgchange -ay
