LVM2 EXT3 64bit Help

[Alex Janssen]

Nick Niemeyer said the following on 03/04/2008 02:12 PM:
> System Info:
>
> Dual AMD Opterons @ 1.8GHZ, 4 GB Memory.  Areca 1220 SATA RAID card w/ 
> 500GB x 7.  Usable space 3TB.
>
> uname -a
> 2.6.22-14-server #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 22:09:15 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> root at home:~# fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 2999.9 GB, 2999999004672 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 364729 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x0008f275
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1          31      248976   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2              32        1247     9767520   83  Linux
> /dev/sda3            1248        2220     7815622+  82  Linux swap / 
> Solaris
> /dev/sda4            2221       97380   764369894+   5  Extended
> /dev/sda5            2221        2463     1951866   83  Linux
> /dev/sda6            2464      243152  1933334361   8e  Linux LVM
>
> root at home:~# pvdisplay
>   --- Physical volume ---
>   PV Name               /dev/sda6
>   VG Name               vg00
>   PV Size               1.80 TB / not usable 5.65 MB
>   Allocatable           yes (but full)
>   PE Size (KByte)       16384
>   Total PE              118001
>   Free PE               0
>   Allocated PE          118001
>   PV UUID               cneUIn-59xw-XbQ2-UQW2-MUPD-ta3z-5waz6h
>
>
> Following these instructions:
> http://www.causton.net/areca.shtml
>
> /*bash #> pvresize /dev/sda
> */This doesn't work for me.  :( 
>
> Trying to troubleshoot the issue I eventually ran into some doc 
> regarding the partition size.  Can someone please help me resize 
> /dev/sda4 to what it should be?  Yes, sloppy admin work, I'm beating 
> myself up pretty good.  I believe I need to use parted in order to 
> work with file systems this large.  parted returns the following:
>
> root at home:~# parted /dev/sda print
> Error: Can't have overlapping partitions.  
>
> Ya, I have created quite the problem and all help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
>
Can you delete the partitions in question?
Alex

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