From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx14.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.19]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id pA8IGwUB009875 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 13:16:58 -0500 Received: from q7.q7.com (q7.q7.com [69.168.48.248]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id pA8IGsF1022170 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 13:16:56 -0500 Received: from charon.spiretech.com (charon.spiretech.com [69.168.63.193]) (authenticated bits=0) by q7.q7.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id pA8IGl9w001735 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 10:16:53 -0800 Message-ID: <4EB9720F.1030709@q7.com> Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:16:47 -0800 From: Joe Pruett MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <915936479.2003418.1320775251420.JavaMail.root@sz0126a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <915936479.2003418.1320775251420.JavaMail.root@sz0126a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Cannot unmount logical volume to reduce it Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" To: LVM general discussion and development when you use the rescue disk, you need to tell it to skip the mounting of the drives. and i hope you know that you need to shrink the file system first before you reduce the lv. i don't know if the appropriate tools will be available on the rescue disk without mounting the main system drive, though. using a livecd might be needed. On 11/08/2011 10:00 AM, Dan White wrote: > RHEL5.7 x86_64 > I want to reduce the size of the logical volumes on a server. > The two giving me trouble are mounted on /var and /usr > > I cannot unmount them to reduce them. Even tried booting into a rescue disc. > > Any suggestions ? > > “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” > Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ >