LVM question
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Thu Apr 21 07:26:35 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 23:21 +0200, Nitai @ ComputerOil wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a huge problem, with that I installed on a 25GB Partiton WinXP
> and then run the FC3 installer. With disk Druid I made a partition for
> swap (2GB), one for /boot, one for /home (10GB) and another for /
> (10GB). So, this made up another 25GB of my HardDisk.
>
> Now the problem ist that I have a 80GB HardDisk and that I have another
> FreeSpace of 29GB which I somehow cant access anymore, because the Linux
> Installer made the /, swap and /home to a LVM Volume.
>
> Does anymore know how I can get the remaining 29GB back? Better would be
> to have them as Fat32 partitioned so I can access them with WinXP.
>
> df -h shows me:
>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 9.7G 4.7G 4.5G 51% /
> /dev/hda2 99M 13M 82M
> 13% /boot
> none 506M 0
> 506M 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02 9.7G 238M 9.0G 3% /home
>
> vgdisplay:
>
> --- Volume group ---
> VG Name VolGroup00
> System ID
> Format lvm2
> Metadata Areas 1
> Metadata Sequence No 4
> VG Access read/write
> VG Status resizable
> MAX LV 0
> Cur LV 3
> Open LV 3
> Max PV 0
> Cur PV 1
> Act PV 1
> VG Size 50.00 GB
> PE Size 32.00 MB
> Total PE 1600
> Alloc PE / Size 688 / 21.50 GB
> Free PE / Size 912 / 28.50 GB
> VG UUID 01CpwZ-IX2i-l55R-a4uF-ZYmG-VmSq-IbJmGR
>
>
> Any good ideas? Thank you.
The extra space is available in the volume group for expansion of any of
the volumes in that group. So you could easily expand your / or /home
volumes to be bigger. However, I don't know of any easy way to reduce
the size of your LVM partition so that you can use the space for a
regular partition that XP could use, at least not without reinstalling
or temporarily borrowing another hard disk to move the data on to.
Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
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