<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> hi, According to your description you want to decrease a partition, so you 'll need to umount your file system an d change the size, with fdisk or gparted. After that remount your partition. <DIV> ntoughe@hotmail.com</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 10:29:34 -0300 From: guillermo.marraco@gmail.com To: linux-lvm@redhat.com Subject: [linux-lvm] Problem resizing partition Hello. I have recently installed a CentOS 5 Linux distribution. Is a free version of Red Hat Enterprise. I are a Linux Newbie. The Linux installer DVD does not liked the 20 Gb ext3 partition I have created (It was saying than now enough space was available), so I tell him to automatically configure the partitions and filesystem. The Installer formatted and created a 32 Mb "boot" partition, and a 20 Gb "unknown" partition (as is found By gparted software). I need to reduce this "unknown" partition by 8 Mb, (to avoid writing the last 8 Mb, since is probably that the PC vendor, has utilized this space to hide information, that windows use to recognizing that is "genuine", (don't bash me about windows, I have not purchased that machine, I are utilizing that machine to experiment and learn Linux, because I want latter to operate a cluster with that OS, and I can't do experiments on the cluster, like learning to resizing partitions) I have not idea what file system is, and what tools allow to resize that partition. I Have installed gparted (#yum install gparted), since I was told that is the "Partition Magic" of Linux. but It looks like this file system is rare, because is for cluster designed. Looking on Internet, I have found that probably this system utilizes clvm (no idea), so I have found this mail list, and write for help. can you help me? PD:Please, excuse my bad grammar, I never studied English. </BLOCKQUOTE> <hr />Explore the seven wonders of the world <a href='http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=7+wonders+world&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE' target='_new'>Learn more!</a></body> </html>