Hello All,
I have a Red Hat Linux 5.9 Server installed with one hard disk & 2 Partitions created on it as follows,
/boot - Linux Partition & another is
LVM - One VG & under that 5-6 Logical volumes(var,opt,home etc).
Here my requirement is to take out 1GB of space from LVM ( Any logical partition & OK with data loss as well) & create a separate new primary Linux partition of that 1 GB space. I am not sure whether it is possible OR not, if possible can you help me provide the steps/commands how to do that.
So far I have tried doing following things after googling & got information from other forums, but so far not got success,
1] Booted in single user mode
2] Unmounted the logical partition which need to shrink
3] Run e2fsck -f /opt
4] resize2fs -p /opt
5] lvreduce -L 1G /opt
6] Saw after mounting, size got reduced
After doing above step, I tried creating partition with fdisk, but it wont allow, moreover I can't see this 1GB free space also in fdisk.
Please help.