Finally getting rid of Windows (almost)
James Pifer
jep at obrien-pifer.com
Mon May 15 15:33:26 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 12:16 +0300, Markku Kolkka wrote:
> James Pifer kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika perjantai, 12.
> toukokuuta 2006 20:32):
> > My current partitions are:
> > /dev/hda1 * 1 3199 25695936 7
> > HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 3200 3212 104422+
> > 83 Linux /dev/hda3 3213 9729 52347802+
> > 8e Linux LVM
> >
> > So can I just blow away the hda1 partition, create a new linux
> > partition, and add it to the lvm?
>
> That's not necessary, just change the partition type of hda1 to
> 8e and you can initialize it with pvcreate and add it to LVM
> with vgextend.
>
> > Or will that hose the
> > boot/grub process?
>
> No, if you don't change the partition number of /boot (hda2).
>
I had no problem with the first couple steps:
Changed hda1 to type 8e, Linux LVM.
Used pvcreate to initialize it.
vgextend reported that it worked, but if I do df, it still shows the
same amount of free space as before.
Should df reflect the full amount of free space in the LVM?
Thanks,
James
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