Re: howmany partitions per disk possible?

Tony Arnold <tony.arnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

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.

Of course not.

I've already shrunk the PV, I now want to shrink the partition.

fdisk is the tool to use for this - you'll delete the partition
and create a new one, which starts at the same spot. Finito -
partition has been shrinked. :)

Alexander Skwar
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