Jim, I inherited some servers that had their root volume in and lvm, and I actually went directly to redhat support and asked exactly what you just requested, and the official word is that redhat will not support resizing the root partition; their answer scared me enough to find some other disks to fill my need, however I'm assuming that the / partition could theoretically be resized if you were working from a rescue disk (whichever partitions your changing I think are suppose to be unmounted) Aaron -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Canfield Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 10:22 AM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Resize root LVM? Greetings, Is it possible to resize the root Logical volume group create using a default install? I would like to shrink it and make room for a new VG for snapshotting purposes. As I understand the process, the file system would need to be unmounted in order to be resized. That seems scary considering it's the root partition. Is this something that needs to be done from a boot disk? Jim -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this electronic message is intended for the exclusive use of the individual or entity named above and may contain privileged or confidential information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that dissemination, distribution or copying of this information is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone and destroy the copies you received. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
