-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 03:50:00PM +0000, Craig McLean wrote: >> Gotcha. Hopefully once the filesystem is resized down and the lvreduce >> is done, moving the physical partition boundary will not destroy any >> allocated PEs, good call on the vgcfgbackup/restore. I wouldn't know >> where to start working out the new PE count for the restore though... >> Will vgdisplay show me the new PE count after the resize? > [snip] > > So to hack this up manually, you'd have to first verify that no segment extends > beyond the new end of the physical volume, and then reduce the pe_count in > the meta-data. > > Best of luck, > > Bill Rugolsky Thanks for all the advice Bill. In the end, I just trashed the disk, installed Solaris in the first partition, then did a very minimal fedora install and restored the whole thing from backup. Worked like a charm and only took a few hours. Let's have a big hand for bacula (www.bacula.org)! Craig. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDgIKLMDDagS2VwJ4RAiodAKCNivn6wvIKoG9w2goWHlguCqgffwCeN69P Q8xuI+gkXke+m/P/cubROS0= =opTt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
