On 2020-05-18 06:38, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/17/20 1:40 PM, Mike Wright wrote: >> On 5/16/20 12:54 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> On 5/16/20 9:29 AM, Barry Scott wrote: >>>>> On 5 May 2020, at 03:57, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> FWIW, I generally use lvresize and only on unmounted file-systems. >>>>> I'm pretty much sure that is what the warning is trying to tell you. >>>>> Having an active filesystem during a resize operation sounds dangerous to me. >>>>> >>>>> (I've not used LV's much recently) >>>> >>>> I use "lvresize -L+${size}G --resizefs ${name}" often and its very safe to do on a live file system. >>> >>> To shrink or grow? And which filesystem? >> >> -L is the option, the + following says increase. I believe the lvresize and lvextend commands are filesystem agnostic. >> >> I, too, use these commands on mounted filesystems and have never had a bad experience ( knock on wood ;) > > Ok, growing is fine, but the OP needed to shrink one as well which can't be done live. > Frankly, I don't know why this tread is being revived. It has already been shown how the OP can accomplish what he wants after booting from a LIVE image. Anyway, if one tries to shrink a mounted filesystem they are presented with this.... [root@f32k2 ~]# lvresize -r -L -1G /dev/fedora_f32k2/home Do you want to unmount "/home" ? [Y|n] n fsadm: Cannot proceed with mounted filesystem "/home". /usr/sbin/fsadm failed: 1 Filesystem resize failed. And unmouting a filesystem that happens to be in use may result in "problems". -- 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
