Am 17. Jul, 2015 schwätzte Stephen M so: > 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. What are the original sizes? What sizes are you trying to shrik them to? Did fsck it after shrinking the filesystem? I think that shouldn't be necessary, but might as well do a health check :). What was the actual error message? Error 5 just a bit generic... You should be able to mount any filesystem that isn't mounted. Some mounted filesystems can be resized as well, with a higher risk of testing your disaster recovery procedures. ciao, der.hans > 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 > > > > -- # http://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.PhxLinux.org/ # "Communications without intelligence is noise; # Intelligence without communications is irrelevant." # Gen. Alfred. M. Gray, USMC