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Resizing Logical Volume (LVM) on ext3 – openSUSE SLES RedHat – Extend Shrink Reduce

Sun, Oct 19 2008
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There are a few steps you have to take to resize a partition. First, you have to resize the filesystem (be sure to do this before you reduce the lv, as that could cause data loss).
In this instance I’ll be resizing a mount location at /app. If you want to shrink the /home partition make sure you go into runlvl 3 (sudo init 3) [ continue reading... ]

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