On Fri, July 9, 2010 11:21, Stroller wrote: > > On 8 Jul 2010, at 18:17, J. Epperson wrote: >> >> What James wants to do appears not to require fooling around with the >> physical disk partitions, and I'd expect to be able to do it using the >> Windows Logical Disk Manager. You'd do the equivalent with the LVM >> utilities if it were a Linux LV setup. It appears that what's called a >> Logical Volume here corresponds to a Linux Volume Group, and the >> partitions C: and P: look like what Linux calls a logical volume. > > I really don't interpret the post that way. Mr Bensley's choice of words > seems quite specific. > > Certainly the Perc4 on the PE2800 allows you to create "logical volumes" > - and I'm sure it calls them exactly that - at the RAID level using the > Dell-bundled RAID configuration web-interface. GParted certainly won't > see them because, as I stated before, the RAID controller will show the > logical volumes as individual drives to Linux, which will call them sda, > sdb &c. >
Oops, yer right. "Logical Volume" is used at too many different layers, and I wasn't even thinking of layer not visible to the partition editor and OS. > >> Note that if you were dealing with filesystems directly on disk >> partitions, you would not be able to shrink the second partition and >> stretch the first one, you'd have to blow away the second one, stretch >> the first one, recreate the second one, and reload its data. > > I believe that - at least using Partition Magic, for instance - it's > possible to move the D: partition (called "P:" in this case) to the end > of the drive, so that there's empty space after the "C:" partition into > which it can be expanded. You simply drag the end-of-partition marker to > the end of the drive, the beginning-of-partition marker to wherever you > want it and hit the green "commit changes" button; the partition does not > need to be the same size. I am surprised to imagine that GParted can't > manage this, as I'm sure it's dead simple easy and obvious under > Partition Magic, at least according to my recollection. > And I can't state for certain that it can't be done in Gparted. I know that it absolutely could not be done the last time I attempted it in the similar Qtparted. You could move the partition markers around, but not the data. _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
