Convert ext4 lvm to normal ext4 partition

[Michael Miles]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:12 PM, JB <jb.1234abcd at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jb.1234abcd at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Michael Miles <mmamiga6 <at> gmail.com <http://gmail.com>> writes:
>
>     > ...
>     Someone has done something similar (as a general method).
>     http://jasondclinton.livejournal.com/72513.html
>
>
> The article is about resizing an ext4 filesystem on an LVM partition. 
> The OP is asking how to convert an LVM partition to ext4, something 
> quite different.
>
> AFAIK this can't be done other than the obvious way: backup, reformat, 
> restore.
>
> poc
Yep, that's what I thought...

I was hoping there would be a way but every method that I can see 
involves data being destroyed
Oh well, back it up and reformat.


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