-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi List! I'm going to stick Solaris 10 on my laptop (this is not an advocacy post, just for info) and to do so I need to free up some physical space on my disk which is currently allocated to LVM2. I'm thinking that the steps below are what I need to do to get where I want to be, but would appreciate any comments or pointers from the list about things I may have missed, gotchas and the like. I have: /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hda2 14 4864 38965657+ 8e Linux LVM where the VG is: VG Name VolGroup00 [snip] VG Size 37.16 GB and LVs are: LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 VG Name VolGroup00 [snip] LV Size 36.62 GB [snip] --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 VG Name VolGroup00 [snip] LV Size 512.00 MB [snip] It's a standard install. That's root and swap. Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 37801496 19290132 16591160 54% / Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 partition 524280 57888 -1 So all my physical space is used up by volumes, but there is free space on the filesystem. I want about 10Gb of physical free space that I can create a Solaris partition in. The plan is: 0) back everything up ;-) 1) boot from the rescue CD, unmount/fsck filesystems 2) resize2fs "/" down by 11Gb 3) lvreduce the root volume down by 10Gb 4) resize2fs "/" back up to fill the LV 5) with fdisk, delete the partition entry and recreate from same starting block, but ending the partition ~10Gb short of where it ends now. 6) reboot and pray. 7) with fdisk, create a space for Solaris to live, and install. I have a bad feeling about step 5, but I can't see another way to do this, given there's no "pvresize". Any comments would be *really* useful! Thanks in advance. Craig. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDefSDMDDagS2VwJ4RAkfGAKC2HyjROmMoFTK3Su7FTzuTAUhjoACgmfha A46EaMeHuj7ToEhJfPom3PI= =ukFj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----