Functional difference in system-config-lvm between FC5 and FC6

[Mike Kearey]

Mike Burger wrote:
> I'm running into a minor snag with system-config-lvm on my FC6 box that I
> don't seem to be having with my FC5 box.
> 
> On my FC5 box, I seem to be able to expand pretty much any filesystem I
> like, at any time, with no complications.
> 
> When I try to expand a mounted filesystem on my FC6 box, though (in this
> case, the root filesystem), it tells me that it must unmount it first.
> 
> What it tries to do, instead, is remount it as read-only, and then does
> nothing to it.
> 
> Is there actually a difference between the the two different FC versions'
> LVM implementations, or is there something I can do to work around this?
> 

Known bug in FC6:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=216071

I have not seen a fix for FC6 yet, though it should be due vry soon

Cheers