Resize the root physical volume
benjoJan 19 2010 — edited Feb 17 2010Hi Guys,
Can anyone help me on my problem?
I want to resize my root physical volume from 16Gb to 5Gb, since i move some of the directories to another logical volume.
I tried the pvresize but it say some error that it cannot allocate.
pvresize --setphysicalvolumesize 5G /dev/hda2
Here is my physical volumes:
[root@oel5 ~]# pvdisplay
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/hdb1
VG Name VolGroup01
PV Size 9.77 GB / not usable 15.74 MB
Allocatable yes
PE Size (KByte) 16384
Total PE 624
Free PE 48
Allocated PE 576
PV UUID SndbrG-oBnm-wqwX-2Y84-okoF-hWiN-RaJo2S
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/hdd1
VG Name VolGroup01
PV Size 9.77 GB / not usable 15.74 MB
Allocatable yes
PE Size (KByte) 16384
Total PE 624
Free PE 80
Allocated PE 544
PV UUID p7RZ2K-wBJA-vYyN-1zUo-33nk-3g8K-migI1b
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/hda2
VG Name VolGroup00
PV Size 15.90 GB / not usable 20.61 MB
Allocatable yes
PE Size (KByte) 32768
Total PE 508
Free PE 404
Allocated PE 104
PV UUID 4r4fGm-7ZFH-UAu2-7wMR-5iPU-rfwm-AvYj3L