[linux-lvm] LVM resizing

Joe Thornber thornber at sistina.com
Wed May 14 03:05:02 UTC 2003


On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 08:13:46AM +0000, Gerald Catling wrote:
> Istallation went well.
> However resizing goes verry badly and the article implies it is possible to 
> grow and shrink  --- usr,home and data partitions.

You will have to resize the filesystem as well.

For shrinking:

i) shrink the fs
ii) lvreduce

For growing:

i) lvextend
ii) grow the fs

- Joe




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