All,<br><br>I followed the instructions from <a href="http://netzooid.com/blog/2005/11/01/shriking-a-physical-volume-on-linux/">http://netzooid.com/blog/2005/11/01/shriking-a-physical-volume-on-linux/</a><br>to reduce the physical volume on my laptop. I am trying to make room for non-lvm partitions. Everything worked fine. I resized the physical volume rom $57G to $27G however fdisk does not see the emtpy space. see below:
<br>[root@hyllus ~]# pvs -o +dev_size --units h<br> PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree DevSize<br> /dev/hda2 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 27.81G 64.00M 55.79G<br><br>---<br><br>Is there something I am missing? Fdisk, parted and any other partition utilties don't see any empty space. There is a mismatch between the physical volume size and what is being reported to the system. Is there a way to shrink the size of /dev/hda2 without having to reformat? I would rather not have to reformat, since /, /usr, /usr/local and other partitions resized on /dev/hda2.
<br><br>Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated.<br><br>Enils<br clear="all"><br>-- <br> ___ ___ ___ <br> /\__\ /\ \ /\__\
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