question about resizing partitions under lvm

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 09:26:39AM -0400, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> Richard Dice wrote:
>>     resize2fs will let you (think you have to turn off the journal with
>>     tune2fs, I don't know the details). The tricky part is running fdisk
>>     after resizing to remove the existing partition and create a new one
>>     with the smaller size.
>>
>>
>> Jamon,
>>
>> But does using fdisk apply in the situation I originally described,  
>> where I said that I'm doing all of this under and lvm environment?  The 
>> various man pages and HOWTOs I've read so far suggest that lvreduce and 
>> lvextend should take the place of fdisk.  Am I right with that?
>
> That I couldn't say, I was responding to Tyler's question. But take a  
> look at the gparted live{cd,usb} tool since it shows the commands it is  
> running in the detailed output. Should give you an idea. I'd imagine if  
> you're resizing a volume down and want to use the unused space for  
> another partition fdisk will be involved.

No fdisk involved since it is moving space between logical volumes.

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