when you use the rescue disk, you need to tell it to skip the mounting of the drives. and i hope you know that you need to shrink the file system first before you reduce the lv. i don't know if the appropriate tools will be available on the rescue disk without mounting the main system drive, though. using a livecd might be needed. On 11/08/2011 10:00 AM, Dan White wrote: > RHEL5.7 x86_64 > I want to reduce the size of the logical volumes on a server. > The two giving me trouble are mounted on /var and /usr > > I cannot unmount them to reduce them. Even tried booting into a rescue disc. > > Any suggestions ? > > “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” > Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
