[CentOS] LVM: Shrinking a physical partition

[Collins Richey]

On 1/17/06, Michael Ubell <ubell at sleepycat.com> wrote:
> When I installed CentOS 4 it created a LVM partition
> occupying the bulk of my disk.  I would like to trim it
> back so I can put another partition for another (thrid)
> operating system.
>
> I found some directions that I thought would let me do
> this.  I used resize2fs to resize the filesystem and lvreduce
> to resize the logical volume.
>
> My problem is that I cannot reduce the size of the partition.
> When I do, I get errors when I try to boot:
>

Just for the record, are you up to 4.2 level? AFAIK, lvm(2) support
was quite broken prior to that. Waiting for others to comment.

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Collins Richey
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