At Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:04:46 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > Here's the situation. I have a dual boot machine - originally had Red > Hat and Windows 2000 Pro. The NTFS partition never did seem to 'get > along' with the Adaptec 2400A caching RAID controller. Linux always > seemed to like the I2O drivers. I went from RH Enterprise to now running > Centos 5.5. Works great! I really don't want the 200 gigs worth of NTFS. > Can't I just run GParted from a CD, reformat the NTFS and append the > space to the existing Linux partition? What will I have to do with LVM > to see the expanded partion? - anything special? I've never done this > before - is it really much more complicated than I've outlined here? > Please advise this old simpleton. Many thanks in advance. The *easy* solution would be to just reformat the NTFS partition as a LVM physical volume -- use a paritioning tool to change its Id to 8e (if the RAID volume is small enough for a normal DOS partition table, fdisk will do this just fine), then do a 'pvcreate /dev/sda<mumble>'. Then just add this partition to your existing LVM volume group using 'vgextend <Your VolumeGroupName> /dev/sda<mumble>'. Now you can use lvcreate, lvresize, etc. as usual. Don't forget to fix things in /boot/grub/ (you don't want to attempt to boot the now wiped MS-Windows system). You can do this all from your CentOS system and don't even have to reboot the system. This assumes that you have already backed up what you want/need from the '200 gigs worth of NTFS' -- I presume you don't need the Windows 2000 Pro system files, but if there is stuff you want in places like My Documents, you should of course copy them off somewhere. > > Ed Westphal > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/