From: Kiran Rao <techie.curious@gmail.com>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: [linux-lvm] Resizing a logical volume which is mounted (at /home)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:51:59 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALe_PVkSZD-ij5D7HQiKoL=obeQMuV3ZnJfd9f_1rocFdkt71A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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To start off, here's an overview of my configuration. I'm dual-booting
Windows XP and Fedora Core 16. When I installed FC 16, here's how I created
the partitions:
1) Volume Group (vg_me) - ~73 GB
Out of this, the following are the logical volumes:
a) lvhome (mount point - /home) - ~48GB
b) lvroot (mount point - /) ~10GB
c) lvvar (mount point - /var) ~15GB
So, there's no free space left on the volume group.
Now, I feel the 48GB is not really necessary for the /home. I want to
redistribute the space among the 3 logical volumes within this VG, or
create a new one (/tech). In either case, I want to take the additional
space (around 20GB) from lvhome and give it to either / or to /tech.
Now, I tried the GUI (system-config-lvm) tool to do this. I can click on
lvhome and try to resize it. However, the problem is that since I am logged
in as a non-root user, the /home is mounted. Resizing requires one to
unmount it, but the unmount operation fails since I am mounted.
How do I work around this?
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next reply other threads:[~2012-01-16 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-16 13:21 Kiran Rao [this message]
2012-01-17 18:15 ` [linux-lvm] Resizing a logical volume which is mounted (at /home) Stuart D. Gathman
2012-01-18 2:45 ` Kiran Rao
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2012-01-16 13:06 Kiran Rao
2012-01-17 14:36 ` Males, Jess
2012-01-19 2:50 ` Kiran Rao
2012-01-19 5:43 ` Stuart D Gathman
2012-01-19 10:03 ` James Hawtin
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