shrinking LVM-volume and add new volumes

[Markku Kolkka]

Götz Reinicke kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika tiistai, 8. 
toukokuuta 2007):
> Hase someone a simple how to what steps have to be done? May
> be it's also a problem, that the volume is mounted as /.

Yes, that's a problem. You can't shrink a mounted ext3 
filesystem, so you must boot with a rescue disc, 
umount -l /mnt/sysimage, then resize the filesystem with 
resize2fs and shrink the logical volume with lvm.

-- 
 Markku Kolkka
 markku.kolkka at iki.fi