Resize root LVM?

[Bliss, Aaron]

Jim,
I inherited some servers that had their root volume in and lvm, and I
actually went directly to redhat support and asked exactly what you just
requested, and the official word is that redhat will not support
resizing the root partition; their answer scared me enough to find some
other disks to fill my need, however I'm assuming that the / partition
could theoretically be resized if you were working from a rescue disk
(whichever partitions your changing I think are suppose to be unmounted)

Aaron 

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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jim Canfield
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 10:22 AM
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Subject: Resize root LVM?

Greetings,

Is it possible to resize the root Logical volume group create using a
default install?  I would like to shrink it and make room for a new VG
for snapshotting purposes.  As I understand the process, the file system
would need to be unmounted in order to be resized.  That seems scary
considering it's the root partition.   Is this something that needs to
be done from a boot disk?

Jim

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