Re: howmany partitions per disk possible?

Alex,

On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 07:25 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
· Tony Arnold <tony.arnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

BTW, I asked this before, but I want to resize a partition used as a
physical volume,

pvresize is the tool to use for this. But why do you want to do
this?

pvresize will resize the physical volume but not the partition it is in.
I've already shrunk the PV, I now want to shrink the partition.

I have my swap space as a logical volume and hibernating was unreliable
on my laptop (Dell Latitude C.400), i.e., sometimes it would work,
sometimes it wouldn't. I was trying to make space for a dedicated swap
partition to see if that made any difference.

For some reason that escapes me at the moment, I seem to have one
extended partition on my disk with two logical partitions, so the
partition I am trying to shrink is hda6.

I could probably do with starting over again.

Having played with things a bit more since, I'm not 100% convinced
putting swap in its own partition will make any difference.

Regards,
Tony.
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