I would like to than everyone for the input. Here is how it was completed:
Boot into GUI mycomp as root # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/dm-0 8.2G 2.9G 4.9G 38% / udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev tmpfs 3.2G 9.2M 3.2G 1% /run tmpfs 7.9G 68K 7.9G 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/sda1 236M 46M 178M 21% /boot /dev/mapper/mycomp--vg-var 2.7G 351M 2.2G 14% /var /dev/mapper/mycomp--vg-tmp 360M 2.1M 335M 1% /tmp /dev/mapper/mycomp--vg-home 427G 136M 405G 1% /home tmpfs 1.6G 4.0K 1.6G 1% /run/user/118 tmpfs 1.6G 8.0K 1.6G 1% /run/user/0 root@mycomp:~# resize2fs /dev/mapper/mycomp--vg-home 5G Filesystem at /dev/mapper/mycomp--vg-home is mounted on /home; on-line resizing required resize2fs: On-line shrinking not supported Rebooting into command line interface for root worked, the /home partition was not mounted. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # lvreduce -L 5G /dev/mapper/mycomp--vg-home WARNING: Reducing active and open logical volume to 5.00 GiB THIS MAY DESTROY YOUR DATA (filesystem etc.) Do you really want to reduce home? [y/n]: y Size of logical volume mycomp-vg/home changed from 433.32 GiB (110931 extents) to 5.00 GiB (1280 extents). Logical volume home successfully resized
