Re: Finally getting rid of Windows (almost)

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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


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