----- Original Message ---- From: Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 7:57:00 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Un Installing a hard drive in a Centos 5.1 box

Pam Astor wrote:

[root@localhost ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 901G 6.7G 848G 1% / /dev/sda1 99M 18M 76M 20% /boot tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm

yup, its all 1 Volume, you are going to need to shrink the lv's - then get your volgroup onto /dev/sda only. info on howto do that is in the lvm howto. also, I'd recommend you download the centos-5.1/livecd and actually do the work once booted from the livecd. shinking filesystems requires you to have the filesystem unmounted, so doing it from the livecd is the only way you are going to manage it here.

Dang, I was afraid you were going to say that :) Oh well, guess I'm going to have fun the next day or two learning about linux file systems.

Thanks much!