Need help resizing LVM patition

[Andrew Konosky]

Brian Richardson wrote:

> Andrew Konosky wrote:
>
>> I have searched online for insructions, but all I can find is stuff 
>> on resizing reiser and ext2 partitions. I am not sure if I need to 
>> resize the LVM voume on hdb2 first, and then the filesystem, or if I 
>> do it the other way around. What commands do I run to do this?
>
>
> If I understand your question correctly, you want to resize the actual 
> LVM partition so that there is 25Gb marked as unused in your partition 
> table. This is not possible. You can only return space to the LVM so 
> that it is available to e2fsadm. And of course your problem now is 
> that you don't have a root or boot partition available to install 
> another Linux distro. Best is probably to install a VMware virtual 
> machine with another distro on it.
>
> Brian

Would it be possible then to just get rid of the 35gb physical volume on 
/dev/hda4 by transferring its data to the 75gb PV, then I would have 
35gb free for Debian?