ray a écrit : > I would like to than everyone for the input. Here is how it was completed: > > Boot into GUI mycomp as root
I thought that logging as root was prohibited by GUI display managers. > # df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on (...) > /dev/mapper/mycomp--vg-home 427G 136M 405G 1% /home (...) > 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 You need to unmount /home first. If you're logged as root, it should work. > Rebooting into command line interface for root worked, the /home partition > was not mounted. What do you call "command line interface for root" ? Single user mode ? > # 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 I hope you reran the resize2fs command successfully before doing this. Otherwise you just ruined your /home filesystem.
