Sam Sharpe <lists.redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 5 February 2011 20:53, Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> JFTR, unfortunately PVs cannot be made smaller. The whole idea of LVM is >> to do all the resize operations *within* the containers. > > JFTR, unfortunately, you'll need to raise a bug against the pvresize > manpage then... > > http://linux.die.net/man/8/pvresize > > --- > Shrink the PV on /dev/sda1 prior to shrinking the partition with fdisk > (ensure that the PV size is appropriate for your intended new > partition size): > > pvresize --setphysicalvolumesize 40G /dev/sda1 > --- > > When filing the report, please state why your assertion "for the > record" is correct over the maintainer's. You can shrink a PV, but you will loose the extents that are stored in the space that you have truncated. I don't consider that resizing. >From the same manpage that you looked up: ,---- | pvresize will refuse to shrink PhysicalVolume if it has allocated | extents after where its new end would be. In the future, it should | relocate these elsewhere in the volume group if there is sufficient free | space, like pvmove does. `---- Unfortunately, pvmove can only move extends to other PVs but not to a different location in the same PV. Why so aggressive? -Nikolaus -- »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« PGP fingerprint: 5B93 61F8 4EA2 E279 ABF6 02CF A9AD B7F8 AE4E 425C -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
