partition management in linux - lvm

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, oleksandr korneta wrote:

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> on 04/17/2006 07:58 AM Matthew Saltzman wrote:
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>> What are the sizes of the two partitions in question?  If the data in the 
>> ext3 partition will fit in the vfat partition, you could do the following:
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> nope, it will not fit there.
> vfat -32GB
> ext3 -the rest of 200GB drive, and it is ~80% full

Looks like you are out of luck.  Just format the vat32 partition as ext3 
and mount it someplace convenient (e.g. /local or /drive2).  You can use 
it normally, except that that subtree is limited to 32GB.

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> thanks for nice instructions, I might think about lvm next time installing 
> linux


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