Clark Have a look at ext2online. It comes with RHEL 4. Regards, Chris On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:35:45 -0800 Duane Clark <dclark@akamail.com> wrote: > Sean McGlynn wrote: > > I am working with RHEL 4 Update 4. When initially installing the OS I > > allowed the installation to automatically partition the disk, and it > > used LVM to create a logical volume to mount the root file system. The > > only other logical volume it created was for the swap file. > > > > Now, as an experiment, I am attempting to extend the volume group and > > logical volume on which root is mounted. Everything appeared to > > be going smoothly (extending the VG, extending the LV, doing a vgchange, > > and then a lvm lvchange), but I am now at the point where I want to run > > e2fsck to check the file system and resize2fs to resize the files system > > to realize the added space, and I can't do either because the volume is > > mounted, and cannot be unmounted. > > > > I've read a few suggestions such as using the installation media to go > > in in rescue mode, but nothing seems to do the trick. > > Why, what problems did you run into? When rescue mode asked you whether > you wanted it to find and mount the root partitions, did you select > "skip"? Here are step by step instructions on how I reduced the LVM (on > FC4), including e2fsck and resize2fs. > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2006-August/msg00081.html > > > I also read > > something that said that you cannot extend the root volume, and that you > > shouldn't have to. This appears to be more accurate than anything else > > I've read. > > Definitely not true. > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
