resizing partitions for FC3 install..
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Thu Mar 10 15:20:31 UTC 2005
bruce wrote:
> wouldn't it be possible to:
>
> 1) expand my '/' partition using parted/bootdisk
> 2) reboot/capture the new partition information
> 3) do a fresh install, now using LVN, but still maintain the
> partition structure, and thereby maintaining the current data/files
> on the drive
No, you couldn't do this without backing up your files and restoring
them afterwards. LVM uses the disk differently to a regular partition table.
Paul.
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