LVM - How to Reduce a Logical Volume

Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it
Fri Jul 21 21:26:07 UTC 2006


gecarroll at notes.cc.sunysb.edu wrote:
> The FC5 install by default creates one logical volume for the entire
> system.  If you
> wish to reduce the size of this volume to free up space for other logical
> volumes,
> you must first unmount it, whether you are using the GUI LVM utility or via
> the
> command line.  But since the volume contains the running system, file are
> active
> and attempts to unmount fail.  How would you reduce(or increase for that
> matter)
> the size of a logical volume when it contains all or part of the running
> system ?

Just reduce the volume when the system is NOT running :-)
That is, boot from a CD in rescue mode...

Best regards.
-- 
   Roberto Ragusa    mail at robertoragusa.it




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