On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 12:16 +0300, Markku Kolkka wrote: > James Pifer kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika perjantai, 12. > toukokuuta 2006 20:32): > > My current partitions are: > > /dev/hda1 * 1 3199 25695936 7 > > HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 3200 3212 104422+ > > 83 Linux /dev/hda3 3213 9729 52347802+ > > 8e Linux LVM > > > > So can I just blow away the hda1 partition, create a new linux > > partition, and add it to the lvm? > > That's not necessary, just change the partition type of hda1 to > 8e and you can initialize it with pvcreate and add it to LVM > with vgextend. > > > Or will that hose the > > boot/grub process? > > No, if you don't change the partition number of /boot (hda2). > I had no problem with the first couple steps: Changed hda1 to type 8e, Linux LVM. Used pvcreate to initialize it. vgextend reported that it worked, but if I do df, it still shows the same amount of free space as before. Should df reflect the full amount of free space in the LVM? Thanks, James
