LVM2: cannot perform lvreduce on logical volume

Shankar Jha shankar.jha at gmail.com
Wed Jun 28 18:30:53 UTC 2006


Hi,
-umount the lvm
-rezer2fs --size
-lvreduce ----
-mount lvm
it will work
Shankar RHCE



On 6/20/06, Barry L. Kline <blkline at attglobal.net> wrote:
>
> Steve Phelps wrote:
> > I have recently created a new logical volume on a freshly installed
> > machine.  I have successfully created an ext3 filesystem on it, and can
> > mount and read/write files to it.  However, I would now like to reduce
> > the size of the logical volume.  I have attempted to lvreduce it (and
> > lvremove it) with the filesystem unmounted, but these commands yield the
> > following error:
> >
>
> Did you reduce the size of the ext3 filesystem residing on that logical
> volume prior to doing the lvreduce?
>
> man resize2fs
>
> Barry
>
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