Thank you for your reply. I was thinking of using Gnome parted, but I wanted to check to see if it can be used with LVM2 partitions. <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:38 AM, brem belguebli <<a href="mailto:brem.belguebli@gmail.com">brem.belguebli@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, your underlying disk /dev/sdb2 cannot be part of more than one volume group, it'll have to be under VolGroup00. When you say I don't want to add it to VolGroup00, you may be confusing some concepts. You certainly don't want to add free space under / (which is a filesystem) on top of a Logical Volume (LogVol0) which itself is built on top of your VolGroup00, isn't it ? If so, you can create a new Logical volume (let's say logvolgeneralstorage, man lvcreate) on top of VolGroup00 which will be mounted on /otherstroragethanslash. Everything is in the man pages (lvcreate, lvs, lvdisplay, mke[234]fs, fstab) 2009/10/23 Rod Rook <<a href="mailto:rod.rook@gmail.com">rod.rook@gmail.com</a>>: <div><div></div><div class="h5">> I've installed Fedora 10 on a 250GB SATA hard drive. > I want to use the unused portion (free PE= 4378, about 140GB), but I don't > know how I go about doing it. > I don't want to add it to VolGroup00, but I want it made accessible as a > general storage space. > >> >> [root@localhost Documents]# pvdisplay /dev/sdb2 > > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/sdb2 > VG Name VolGroup00 > PV Size 232.69 GB / not usable 4.58 MB > Allocatable yes > PE Size (KByte) 32768 > Total PE 7446 > Free PE 4376 > Allocated PE 3070 >> >> PV UUID DBf14Y-SLFe-cwZy-m1O7-3Jw9-Xhdf-3u42iX >> > </div></div>> _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > <a href="mailto:linux-lvm@redhat.com">linux-lvm@redhat.com</a> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm</a> > read the LVM HOW-TO at <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/" target="_blank">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/</a> > _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-lvm@redhat.com">linux-lvm@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm</a> read the LVM HOW-TO at <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/" target="_blank">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/</a> </blockquote></div>