On 2020-05-05 11:19, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/4/20 7:10 PM, linux guy wrote: >> # lvreduce -L 6G /dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-home >> WARNING: Reducing active and open logical volume to 6.00 GiB. >> THIS MAY DESTROY YOUR DATA (filesystem etc.) >> Do you really want to reduce fedora_localhost-live/home? [y/n]: >> Is lvreduce smart, ie does it know not to touch existing data ? > > I expect you need to resize the filesystem first before resizing the volume. But also, you can't shrink ext4 while it's mounted. > Yes, I just did it on a VM to test. I booted from a LIVE image so the nothing was mounted. BEFORE [root@f30g ~]# lvs LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert root fedora_f30g -wi-ao---- <17.00g swap fedora_f30g -wi-ao---- 2.00g ran e2fsck on the file system ran resize2fs to shrink it ran lvresize with -L to shrink the root LV Since this was a VM with no real users I didn't have a separate /home. So, I ran lvresize with -L to increase the swap LV ran mkswap to remake the swap partition AFTER [root@f30g ~]# lvs LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert root fedora_f30g -wi-ao---- 16.00g swap fedora_f30g -wi-ao---- 2.80g -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
