Re: Fedora Cookbook: Resizing a logical volume

[moi <rainer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Root FS resizes imho usually requires the Rescue mode. Perhaps when growing, but shrinking is a bit tough...

You may - in rescue mode - import the Volume Group (when using LVM) and do the resize operations. Do not forget to do a partprobe /dev/xda, as the kernel will still be using the old filesystem tables when resizing (one of our customers did a shrink on the root partition and ran fsck, this made a lot of errors afterwards).

brgds
rainer


Robert P. J. Day schrieb:

On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, Luciano Rocha wrote:

  

2. There is no need to do an off-line resize. Ext3 (and xfs) suppors
on-line resizing, so the steps are:
  * lvextend -L +4G /dev/f8/opt
  * resize2fs /dev/f8/opt
    

does that include the root filesystem as well?  i recall that that
*used to be* an issue.

rday

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