Yes, but when I was trying to shrink the /home to give more to /usr it was giving that error. Thats why I wanted to know what might be going on. I know I could do it through a GUI but I want to learn command line. On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 8:59 PM, James Mcphee wrote: > 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 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? >> >> -- >> Stephen Melheim >> 602-400-7707 >> SMelheim85@gmail.com >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > James McPhee > jmcphe@gmail.com > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Stephen Melheim 602-400-7707 SMelheim85@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss