Seems to me to be easier to shrink the logical volume (and its
filesystem) and create a new logical volume on the single volume group.
George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
623-203-1760
Alan Dayley wrote:
> > I have a system with a SCSI hardware RAID 5. It has a boot partition
> and all the rest, 34+ GB, as a single volume using LVM. I want to
> shrink the large partition to about 6GB so I can create a separate ext3
> partition. I have never "messed" with LVM before, preferring to leave
> them running once installed.
>
> OS: CentOS 4.3
> HD device: /dev/c0d0
> Boot partition: /dev/c0d0p1
> LVM partition: /dev/c0d0p2
>
> I have the CentOS 4.3 install CDs and Knoppix as boot and tool sources
> for manipulating the RAID array partitions. The system is installed and
> working but presently has no live data on it. I am simply trying to
> avoid a full re-install to adjust the partitions but can do that if
> recommended as easier.
>
> The references I have found so far talk mostly about expanding LVM
> partitions, not shrinking them. Thus, my question.
>
> Alan
>
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