Hello all,
This is my first post, I'll try to be as clear and concise as possible. I'll start with the current configuration and the fix I've gotten myself into:
System: Acer eeeBox B202 (Intel Atom N270, 2GB RAM, 200GB laptop SATA drive)
Boot Drive: Sandisk 2GB SD card (already realized my mistake there, hold your boos and hisses until the end please)
Additional Storage: LaCie USB 2.0 External HDD enclosure containing a 500GB WD SATA drive.
Filesystem: The two HDD's are part of one Logical Volume (named Vault).
OMV Verstion: 0.4_i386
Situation: Got OMV up and running on the SD card about a week ago, in complete disregard of all the excellent advice to the contrary. Was planning on it being temporary while I played with OMV. True to expectations, the SD card seems to be causing problems. It's tossing up "drive is full errors" when starting LVM and other services (such as samba). Not sure if the drive is actually full or if it's a filesystem corruption issue caused by the SD card. Either way, the time has come to get this install onto a proper drive.
My goal is to get the install onto the physical drive that is installed in the eeeBox (shows as <b>sda</b> in the OS). I've been reading through the How To section on this, and I believe my best bet is to use a live-cd boot of gparted to resize sda into an OS partition, a swapfile, and leave the rest for the LVM. Now for the question:
Question: Can I resize this partition in gparted without losing the data that I've moved into the logical volume? I can't really tell if there's anything on this specific physical drive, <i>vgdisplay</i> isn't showing the individual physical drives because the cache.tmp file won't load. I should also note that gparted shows the entire physical drive as being unallocated space.
I am, as you may have guessed, not terribly experienced with Linux. My troubleshooting thus far consists of reading the forums as well as Google searches regarding LVM and Gparted.
Thanks for your time (and hopefully for your assistance).
-Spaxter