On 10/27/2014 07:42 PM, reynierpm at gmail.com wrote: > Hi SilverTip nice answer and very helpful, I'll try to get some more help > here since as I said in the main post I'm not an expert on Linux or a > Administrator I'm just a developer trying to setup a development enviroment > so ... > > It's telling you the truth. >> Sounds like you want another Logical Volume (LV) not partition. >> >> > You're right, what I need is a new LV but how I do that? > > >> Sounds like you destroyed one or more of your LVs through all this. >> >> > Probable and I'm pretty sure I do it :-( > > >> Please read the following documentation before forging further ahead. >> And you might spin up a VM or live CD to experiment with LVM operations >> before going any further as well. >> - speaks about extents [0] >> - read the entire Chapter 2 on LVM [1] as it applies to your scenario (ex: >> snapshots probably don't) >> - dated/older, but it may prove helpful [2] >> >> [0] >> >> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Logical_Volume_Manager_Administration/lv_overview.html >> [1] >> >> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Logical_Volume_Manager_Administration/LVM_components.html >> [2] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/LVM-HOWTO/ >> > > Fine, I read it but know doubts persist on my mind. First, I'm running OS > in a Vmware Workstation VM and I'll not like to loose every I have there > since then I'll need to reconfigure all from scratch but if there is not > another option to save my mess the we should go through it. If I were in your position, I think I would: * Create a new, 80GB disk using VMWare * Partition that disk into your /boot and LVM partitions * pvcreate * vgcreate * lvcreate the disk structure you want in your new disk, making sure all LVs are at least a little bigger than the old ones. * use dd to copy disks from old drives to corresponding old drives * use resize2fs to expand your file system to the full size of each of the LVs you created. * detach old virtual disk from your VM * reboot, and see if you succeeded If I forgot something here, hopefully someone else will chime in. The idea is to dump your corrupted LVM structure without loosing its content. Ted Miller Elkhart, IN, USA