From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx13.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.18]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id pA8IqB3Y030371 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 13:52:11 -0500 Received: from qmta04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.40]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id pA8IqA5x005103 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 13:52:11 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 18:52:06 +0000 (UTC) From: Dan White Message-ID: <1291287654.2006642.1320778326879.JavaMail.root@sz0126a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <4EB9720F.1030709@q7.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 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 Thanks. I'll try it and see what I get. I may be able to customize a rescue disc. ----- Joe Pruett wrote: > 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)