On 11/8/05, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@fastdruid.co.uk">mythtv-users@fastdruid.co.uk</a></b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@fastdruid.co.uk">mythtv-users@fastdruid.co.uk</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote">
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Jim asked:<br><br><snip><br><br>>There is no way to format the other partitions without wiping out the LVM
<br>group is there?<br><br>Yes, not a problem, just format the partitions you want to use and leave the<br>LVM group, copy the /etc/fstab (hard copy probably a good idea) and then (if<br>your flavour doesn't automatically recognise it and automatically add it)
<br>re-add the relevent details to the fstab again.<br><br>Don't forget to ensure that you've installed the relevent filesystem, for<br>example ISTR fedora needs to be passed a boot option on install to use xfs<br>(obviously possible to install later but easiest on install).
<br><br>FWIW All I had to do (on SuSE 10, upgrading from SuSE 9.1) was to set the<br>mount point.<br></blockquote></div><br>
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I will try that out. Hopefully it will work. I don't want to lose all the recordings I have on there. Thanks!<br>
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Jim<br>