Well I wanna move all my data to the start of the hd then i wanna make the lvm bigger and make an extended partition of the rest.

so , cfdisk didnt help
parted gives me

Error: Could not detect file system.
when trying to move sda3 and gives me
Error: Filesystem has incompatible feature enabled

when trying to move sda2.
fdisk does not seem to have any move thing and sfdisk seems to be hard to use.

(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-150272.068 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
2 140262.825 140364.799 primary ext3
3 140364.800 150264.228 primary lvm

(fdisk)
Command (m for help): print

Disk /dev/sda: 157.5 GB, 157571684864 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19156 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda2 17882 17894 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 17895 19156 10137015 8e Linux LVM

This is wierd! ok i have tried lvm too now.
lvm> lvextend -L +30G /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /dev/sda3
Extending logical volume LogVol00 to 37.66 GB
Insufficient allocatable logical extents (247) for logical volume LogVol00: 1205 required

So i thought i need to either move the free space to the end or move the lvm partition to the start (I think the freespace to the end is the better one)


this is what vgdisplay gives

lvm> vgdisplay -v VolGroup00
Using volume group(s) on command line
Finding volume group "VolGroup00"
--- Volume group ---
VG Name VolGroup00
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 1
Metadata Sequence No 3
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 2
Open LV 2
Max PV 0
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
VG Size 9.66 GB
PE Size 32.00 MB
Total PE 309
Alloc PE / Size 307 / 9.59 GB
Free PE / Size 2 / 64.00 MB
VG UUID Qmvghr-bxZC-bX2a-tw0S-awXS-CWw2-jEtrMT

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
VG Name VolGroup00
LV UUID B82uB5-xwO3-6qf3-bMUc-O48s-cWUA-WrlZGO
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 7.66 GB
Current LE 245
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors 0
Block device 253:0

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
VG Name VolGroup00
LV UUID NU9lxb-HkL6-mavx-e7xp-7t2G-cly4-A7bCAO
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 1.94 GB
Current LE 62
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors 0
Block device 253:1

--- Physical volumes ---
PV Name /dev/sda3
PV UUID tEyyXD-JaDJ-5T0D-TTK0-b4Du-YUS9-gqg6BJ
PV Status allocatable
Total PE / Free PE 309 / 2