I went to the installfest and someone reminded me that in Debian, / will be mounted as read only and I need to remount it as rw. So once he helped me with that I was able to see how to shrink/expand the logical volume. On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > On 2015-07-18 10:25, Stephen M wrote: >> >> The original size [of the LV was] 3G for my home directory. I am trying to >> reduce it to 2G so then I can increase my /usr to 8G from 7G. > > >> lvreduce -L 1G /dev/testLVM/lvhome >> Do you really want to reduce lvhome? [y,n]: y >> Command failed with status code 5 > > > The man page for lvreduce says: > > -L, --size [-]LogicalVolumeSize[bBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE] > Reduce or set the logical volume size in units of megabytes. With the - sign > the value will be subtracted from the logical volume's actual size and > without it it will be taken as an absolute size. > > ...so it thought you were resizing the LV to 1G, and lvreduce probably is > smart enough to tell that the filesystem on the LV is 2G in size. You > probably wanted "lvreduce -L 2G /dev/testlvm/lvhome" or "lvreduce -L -1G > /dev/testlvm/lvhome". > > -- > Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress > There is no Darkness in Eternity > But only Light too dim for us to see. > --------------------------------------------------- > 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