From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx11.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.16]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id pA99iNwT008206 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2011 04:44:24 -0500 Received: from mailhost.ankh.org (ammut.ankh.org [93.97.41.159]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id pA99iMd1027726 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2011 04:44:23 -0500 Received: from gtw.srd.co.uk ([82.69.77.54] helo=agnew.srd.co.uk) by mailhost.ankh.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RO4Gu-0000BC-Jg for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:16:40 +0000 Message-ID: <4EBA4B6F.5010905@ankh.org> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:44:15 +0000 From: James Hawtin MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1291287654.2006642.1320778326879.JavaMail.root@sz0126a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <1291287654.2006642.1320778326879.JavaMail.root@sz0126a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: LVM general discussion and development Dan White wrote: > Thanks. I'll try it and see what I get. > I may be able to customize a rescue disc. > IF you don't mount the disks, you may need to so a pvscan and a vgchange -a y the other alturnative when you use a rescue disk is to just inmount the filesystems, you will not have a problem as the disks are not in use. The third alturnative is to take out the disks from the fstab, and use grub to boot the machine single user however, newer OS like centos 6 will not like this rather than dropping to a shell will just throw a wobbly and reboot. James