Shrinking an LVM root filesystem?
Ville Herva
vherva at viasys.com
Sun Mar 28 19:50:28 UTC 2004
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 01:30:50PM -0600, you [Steve Bergman] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've built a server and installed FC1. I used LVM for /, /usr, /home,
> /var, and swap. /boot is in it's own partition. I fully intend to
> upgrade to FC2 when it is released, which is why I am posting here
> instead of the FC1 list.
>
> Not really knowing what I was doing, I sized my / rather larger than I
> should have, thinking that I could just shrink it later if I needed to.
>
> I've since decided that I will probably want to do just that, but if I
> understand correctly, I can only shrink unmounted filesystems. I could
> reinstall, as I have not gone live with this server yet. Is it possible
> to shrink / from rescue mode or something?
You could burn a copy of Knoppix (google for it) or some other cd based
distro and do the resize from there.
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