Looking at it your planned steps are fine except you don't need to worry about turning the journal off and then on afterwards. I've done ext3 resizing operations on LVM many times over the last few years and *never* experienced issues with the journal. Remember the journal is there to keep data corruption (and fsck time) at a minimum if the file system goes down uncleanly. AFAIK, unmounting an ext3 file system forces the journal to commit itself to disk, which means the journal is empty during the resize operation anyways. -Drew _______________________________________________ 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/