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Old 08-12-2009
trying to devide existing physical volume
hi guys, i`m trying to take 40GB of my sda5 (/home mounted) to create new volume group(lvc)

here`s the df output:

Code:
/dev/sda2             7,9G  3,3G  4,3G  44% /
udevfs                5,0M   60K  5,0M   2% /dev
shmfs                 379M     0  379M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                 379M  4,0K  379M   1% /tmp
/dev/sda5             285G  501M  270G   1% /home

/sbin/fdisk /dev/sda -l :

Code:
/dev/sda1   *           1         192     1542208+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2             193        1236     8385930   83  Linux
/dev/sda4            1237       38913   302640502+   5  extended
/dev/sda5            1237       38913   302640471   83  Linux

/sbin/lvscan
No volume groups found

i would really apreciate any suggestions/advices and theory, thanks!!
# 2  
Old 08-12-2009
Backup home by doing something like
Code:
cd /
tar -cf home.tar /home
umount /home

Delete the /home partition. Create it smaller, that way you have disk space left over to create a (8e) LVM partition. You can use the vgcreate commands to create your volume group once you have created the LVM partition.
Padow
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Old 08-12-2009
great, thanks!
 
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