<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> On 5/18/2012 10:13 AM, tariq wali wrote: > so to i guess to do this right i should have > resize2fs /dev/vg0/data 1.6T or (1600G > and then lvreduce -n data -L 100G /dev/vg0/data ( to reduce the lvm by 100 ) This is probably a nit-picking.. but seriously consider picking a single numeric selection for both operations. Either run both commands with an absolute value (preferable in my opinion; there is NO QUESTION at that point what your final state should be) or with the delta value. Mixing both in the commands is another way to confuse what you actually want to accomplish. If you'd used absolute values to start with there probably would have been a reduced chance of failure (barring a typo.. though you still need to verify the resize2fs command completed successfully before doing the lvreduce). -r </body> </html>