Myrosia Dzikovska said the following on 04/09/2011 04:09 PM:
Do you have convenient tools to use with LVM? Last time I had to deal with it (6 months ago), it was so tiresome that I swore I will not ever touch it again.
Now, granted, it started with someone else's stupidity. Some person at Dell set up a drive with a 4G /home as primary partition, and a 496G / set up as LVM. Don't ask me what on earth they were thinking. I ended up with the task of remedying this setup.
Was you problem with resizing the partitions or resizing the file systems on the partitions? Trying to shrink that 496G root partition without first shrinking the file system on it would lead to disaster! The tool I used with IBM AIX did both "under the hood". The paper I referred to by Michael Hasenstein explains quite clearly how to both shrink and grow partitions with file systems on them. Do realise that some file systems cannot be resized. Michael also describes a YAST1 gui for doing LVM management. See also http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/opensuse_guides/opensuse11.1_referenc... You might also look at /sbin/fsadm Which is incorrect: you can resize a ReiserFS without unmounting. I've done it many times :-) -- "What we have learned from others becomes our own by reflection". -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org