tokyoi@xxxxxxx wrote:
Dear All,
I have come to the conclusion that I would be better off managing the
partitions on my system (fully updated FC5, KDE) myself, rather than
wandering through the ethereal reaches of the LV system. The GUI is a
dead loss, not least because it keeps telling me that elements of the
system are uninitialized when I am actually using them on a daily basis.
The command-line LVM programme is more appealing but I am not really
sure as to what will happen to my system -- as in the physical bits and
bobs -- if I tell lvm to remove a volume. Am I right in thinking that
the various commands to remove volumes simply mean that logical volume
management is disabled and that the data remains intact, for me to
administer it again via fdisk and /etc/fstab? I have more backups than
Soft Mick but would rather leave them as an unused comfort zone. I have
looked through the man pages and the like but would appreciate
confirmation from those who are more knowledgeable than I.
You'll lose the data if you delete the volume it's on.
Deleting a logical volume will not free up any space for regular
partitions either. To do that, you would have to be able to remove a
physical volume. To do that, you would would have to be able to migrate
all data off that volume on to another physical volume assigned to the
same volume group. In the default setup with one hard disk, there is
only one physical volume and so you can't do it. So if you really want
to get rid of LVM, you're going to have to reinstall.
Paul.
