At 5:37 PM -0400 6/3/07, Robert L Cochran wrote: >I have one physical hard drive, a Western Digital 400 Gb which is >currently 100% used by Fedora Core 5. It is an LVM volume that looks >like this: > >[rlc@bobcp4 ~]$ df -h >Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 > 359G 58G 283G 17% / >/dev/sda1 99M 16M 79M 17% /boot >/dev/shm 1004M 0 1004M 0% /dev/shm > > >I want to resize and repartition this nondestructively so there are 5 >partitions. 3 of these will be the /boot, /, and swap partitions and >together will total about 119 Gb. The other 2 partitions will each have >approximately 119 Gb each. My goal is to put 3 different operating >systems on the hard drive. /boot must be a Basic partition, not LVM. >Here is what I believe I need to do. > >1. Boot the Fedora 7 DVD in rescue mode. >2. Do not mount the file system, instead just go to a shell prompt and >3. lvm vgscan > >Gets the name of the volume group > >4. lvm vgchange -a y /dev/VolGroup00 > >Activates the volume > >5. e2fsck -f /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > >Checks file system for errors > >6. resize2fs /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 119G > >shrinks the file system down to 119 Gb > >7. fdisk > >shrinks size of partition > >8. lvresize -L -238G /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > >Then reboot without the rescue CD and I should still be able to boot >Fedora Core 5 but the disk will have 238G of unpartitioned free space. >Does this sequence seem correct? I think so. You should do a backup first. It will only take about 20 or so DVDs. >Thanks for any help you can offer! -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
