On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 21:00 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
On 02/21/2011 08:17 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> So is there a utility that can move the front of a physical volume
> partition? (gparted and fdisk apparently can't).
[...]
Another probably much safer solution would be:
- get a spare disk (even USB external one)
- create new PV, add to VG, pvmove your PV to the new PV
- destroy and recreate your PV
- pvmove from USB PV to enlarged PV
- remove USB PV
This is less error prone. It can happen while the filesystem is R/W mounted too.
That sounds like a better idea. (Probably slower though.)
Thanks.
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Matthew Saltzman
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