[bitfolk] Downsizing LVM PVs

Hi, Our new install is going pretty well. Thanks for all your help so far. Not wanting me to have an easy life, the project manager has just thrown me a curve-ball: The most recent generation of the current system in the wild is built on fairly-new hardware and he's asked for all the last-gen machines (Dell R210) to be returned to us for internal use. He wants me to install the new Xen VM bundle on the Dell hardware. If I'd known about this earlier-on, there are a few things I would have done slightly differently. The biggest problem I have right now is that the new machines have 300GB drives in them and the Dells are 250GB. We use Clonezilla to image the machines and it won't restore the drive (an ext /boot and an LVM PV) from the 300GB drive to the 250 even though more than 50GB of the LVM PV is unallocated (The LVs total in the low 200s of GBs in a 299GB PV) so the LVs don't need resizing. I think I need to either: 1) Find someone who is a Clonezilla god who can tell me how to make Clonezilla shrink the PV using some of the advanced options. 2) Restore the image to one of our new test boxes, shrink the PV to under 250GB and then make a new Clonezilla image from that. I would value any of your input on how to achieve either of these options without breaking something. I'm thinking option 2 will probably be the one. Thanks, Paul.