lvreduce and lvextend

[Eugene Vilensky]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Geofrey Rainey
<Geofrey.Rainey at tvnz.co.nz> wrote:
> Try running resize2fs first (reduce the filesystem), then use lvresize.
> Then do the same for / but execute the commands in the other order. I
> don't think either need to be umounted but if they do, fuser /var will
> tell you what you
> Need to stop to umount /var.
>

resize2fs can only shrink unmounted filesystems.