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authorRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2009-05-15 14:01:28 +0100
committerRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2009-05-15 14:52:34 +0100
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Add: pvresize, sfdisk-N, sfdisk-l, sfdisk-kernel-geomtry, sfdisk-disk-geometry commands. Pass --no-reread flag to sfdisk.
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@@ -905,6 +905,13 @@ The implementation uses the C<pvremove> command which refuses to
wipe physical volumes that contain any volume groups, so you have
to remove those first.
+=head2 pvresize
+
+ pvresize device
+
+This resizes (expands or shrinks) an existing LVM physical
+volume to match the new size of the underlying device.
+
=head2 pvs
pvs
@@ -1064,9 +1071,53 @@ To create a single partition occupying the whole disk, you would
pass C<lines> as a single element list, when the single element being
the string C<,> (comma).
+See also: C<sfdisk-l>, C<sfdisk-N>
+
+B<This command is dangerous. Without careful use you
+can easily destroy all your data>.
+
+=head2 sfdisk-N
+
+ sfdisk-N device n cyls heads sectors line
+
+This runs L<sfdisk(8)> option to modify just the single
+partition C<n> (note: C<n> counts from 1).
+
+For other parameters, see C<sfdisk>. You should usually
+pass C<0> for the cyls/heads/sectors parameters.
+
B<This command is dangerous. Without careful use you
can easily destroy all your data>.
+=head2 sfdisk-disk-geometry
+
+ sfdisk-disk-geometry device
+
+This displays the disk geometry of C<device> read from the
+partition table. Especially in the case where the underlying
+block device has been resized, this can be different from the
+kernel's idea of the geometry (see C<sfdisk-kernel-geometry>).
+
+The result is in human-readable format, and not designed to
+be parsed.
+
+=head2 sfdisk-kernel-geometry
+
+ sfdisk-kernel-geometry device
+
+This displays the kernel's idea of the geometry of C<device>.
+
+The result is in human-readable format, and not designed to
+be parsed.
+
+=head2 sfdisk-l
+
+ sfdisk-l device
+
+This displays the partition table on C<device>, in the
+human-readable output of the L<sfdisk(8)> command. It is
+not intended to be parsed.
+
=head2 stat
stat path