howmany partitions per disk possible?

[Alexander Skwar]

Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk>:

> Alex,
> 
> On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 07:25 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
>> · Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk>:
>> 
>> > BTW, I asked this before, but I want to resize a partition used as a
>> > physical volume,
>> 
>> pvresize is the tool to use for this. But why do you want to do
>> this?
> 
> pvresize will resize the physical volume but not the partition it is in.

Of course not.

> I've already shrunk the PV, I now want to shrink the partition.

fdisk is the tool to use for this - you'll delete the partition
and create a new one, which starts at the same spot. Finito - 
partition has been shrinked. :)

Alexander Skwar
-- 
The `loner' may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues,
for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be
simply making a limiting statement about himself.
                -- Sidney Harris