Re: Feature Request

[Andrew Clausen]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 11:41:03AM +0200, Ajeet Nankani wrote:
> I want to know if it is planned to support reducing of lvm 83 partion
> with parted.
> 
> Currently if all underlying structure(File-Systems, LV, PV) in LVM
> partition is reduced by LVM tools then one has to edit the device's
> parition table manualy so that the system can see free space.
> Even though parted can create linux lvm partitions but can not reduces
> it untill now.
> 
> So are there any plans to support this feature in furture?

Previous discussions of this idea concluded with "this is a good idea",
but no-one has implemented it yet.  I think it should be very easy
to add this for PVs, using the userspace library LVM provides.

On a related note, I just found out about relaytool, which is useful for
making soft dependencies.  i.e. "if libX isn't available, then support
for X will be disabled."  It can be used to avoid the mess that exists
in libparted/fs_reiser.  Pity it only support PPC and x86.

Cheers,
Andrew