Re: Convert ext4 lvm to normal ext4 partition

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Subject: Re: Convert ext4 lvm to normal ext4 partition
From: Michael Miles <mmamiga6@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:52:40 -0800
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Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:12 PM, JB <jb.1234abcd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Michael Miles <mmamiga6 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> ...
Someone has done something similar (as a general method).
http://jasondclinton.livejournal.com/72513.html

The article is about resizing an ext4 filesystem on an LVM partition. The OP is asking how to convert an LVM partition to ext4, something quite different.

AFAIK this can't be done other than the obvious way: backup, reformat, restore.

poc

Yep, that's what I thought...

I was hoping there would be a way but every method that I can see involves data being destroyed
Oh well, back it up and reformat.

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