On 2015-07-18 10:25, Stephen M wrote:
The original size [of the LV was] 3G for my home directory. I am
trying to
reduce it to 2G so then I can increase my /usr to 8G from 7G.
lvreduce -L 1G /dev/testLVM/lvhome
Do you really want to reduce lvhome? [y,n]: y
Command failed with status code 5
I went to the installfest and someone reminded me that in Debian, /
will be mounted as read only and I need to remount it as rw. So once
he helped me with that I was able to see how to shrink/expand the
logical volume.
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Matt Graham mhgra...@crow202.org wrote:
On
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
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
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.
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 8:59 PM, James Mcphee jmc...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes. To
