[KLUG Members] how do I do this?

Mike Williams members@kalamazoolinux.org
Wed, 03 Sep 2003 16:33:17 -0400


I have a Redhat 8.0 machine, from which I want to remove a small hard 
drive.  Here's the partitioning setup as it is now:

hda:  2.5 gig
    200 meg /boot
    256 meg swap
    2 gig scratch (easily moved to  hdc)

hdb:  60 gig
    60 gig md RAID 1

hdc:  80 gig
    60 gig md RAID 1
    512 meg /tmp
    256 meg swap

md0:  60 gig LVM
    /usr, /var, /home, /.  space available at the end

Now, I would like to remove hda, but I'll need to put /boot on hdb and 
there's no space left.  I can't put /boot on the 80 gig because this 
machine's BIOS hangs if it tries to detect a drive that large.  So, I 
need to shrink the physical partion (the 60 gig LVM mirror) by about 100 
megs from the front so I can put /boot on hdb.  How the heck do I do 
something like this?