Re: Can't move an LVM partition?

[leslie . polzer]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 12:57:18PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> My parted binary (v1.7.1 from Debian testing) refuses the move LVM
> partitions. Why is that? I moved it by hand by simply copying the data
> with dd and it worked dandy. I suspect that the same holds for 99% of
> the existing partition types (ext2, md, pvm, ...), so parted's `move'
> should have a default implementation that works for any partition,
> maybe with a warning that says something like "we don't know whether
> it'll do the right thing for this type of partition".
This (i.e. raw partition resizing and moving) is a wish that will soon
be implemented.

  Leslie

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