partition management in linux - lvm

[oleksandr korneta]

on 04/16/2006 09:07 PM David Timms wrote:
> oleksandr korneta wrote:
>> The goal is to delete the fat32 partition and extend the ext3 partition 
>> to the whole drive without losing the data. There is no way for me to 
>> backup this data - it is 200Gb drive. Neither gparted nor qtparted 
>> cannot handle this task (I assume these are based on the same lib). 
>> Presumably, parted will fail as well.
>>
>> Is there any tool for linux (preferably opensource) that is capable of 
>> accomplishing of this task?
> Logical volume management (LVM) is designed to help in just this sort of 
> task.
> At partitioning you create a partition/s of type LVM (iirc) (the 
> physical volumes - or space to use). Then you create logical volumes 
> within the lvm physical volumes. The Logical Volumes can then span 
> multiple partitions, and other physical disks.
> 
> There is a gui tool to view this:System|Administration|Logical Volume 
> Management.
> 
> By default, FC5 seems to choose to make LVM partitions, which would make 
> it fairly easy. I don't know about converting existing partition/data 
> into LVM though ?
yep. This is the whole point.
I dont have any experience, with LVM (although this is not a problem). I 
probably try it next time at some fresh install. But this time I have 
linux box, which works for me just fine for a long time already. And I 
don't want to mess anything up there.
The task is to add an additional drive and change the partition table in 
a way I've mentioned. I believe that Partition Magic for windows can 
handle such thing with no problem. But there is no windows here and I'm 
wondering if there is anything similar for linux.


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Oleksandr Korneta

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