LVM question

James Mcphee jmcphe at gmail.com
Fri Jul 17 20:59:27 MST 2015


Yes.  To resize an lv, you do an lvresize and then a resize2fs.  you can
grow them without much issue, and newer ones will let you do it online.
 just don't try to shrink it online :)

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 8:43 PM, Stephen M <smelheim85 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm trying to learn LVMs.  I created a couple LVM partitions and was
> trying to resize a /home I made.  I use efsck2 to check the disk,
> resize2fs to resize it then lvreduce/lvresize but it came out with an
> error status 5 code.  The partition was unmounted so that wasn't the
> issue and I was in a tty using root.  Is /home on LVM allowed to be
> resized?
>
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