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Re: How to Rezize Partition on LVM

From Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: How to Rezize Partition on LVM
Date 2015-10-24 04:40 +0200
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On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 18:05:55 -0700 (PDT)
ray <ray@aarden.us> wrote:

>I would like to resize the /home partition but it is mounted, and when umount is run, it errors with 'busy'.  
>
>System Configuration:
>I installed jessie on a laptop with one SSD.  I used guided partitioning and selected the whole drive with multiple partitions.  The /home now takes up 420 GB.  I would like to reduce that to 20 GB to make room for another partition.  
>
>What are the methods reduce this partition?
>

I have always booted from a live cd or usb to do the resizing. That
keeps the partition from being mounted.

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How to Rezize Partition on LVM ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2015-10-24 03:30 +0200
  Re: How to Rezize Partition on LVM Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com> - 2015-10-24 04:40 +0200
  Re: How to Rezize Partition on LVM Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2015-10-24 04:40 +0200
  Re: How to Rezize Partition on LVM Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-10-24 17:50 +0200
    Re: How to Rezize Partition on LVM ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2015-10-25 14:00 +0100
      Re: How to Rezize Partition on LVM Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-10-25 16:00 +0100
        Re: How to Rezize Partition on LVM ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2015-10-25 20:10 +0100
        Re: How to Rezize Partition on LVM ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2015-10-25 20:30 +0100
          Re: How to Rezize Partition on LVM Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2015-10-25 20:50 +0100
            Re: How to Resize Partition on LVM ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2015-10-26 02:50 +0100
              Re: How to Resize Partition on LVM Mario Castelán Castro  <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2015-10-26 03:20 +0100
              Re: How to Resize Partition on LVM Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-10-26 10:00 +0100
                Re: How to Resize Partition on LVM Mario Castelán Castro  <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2015-10-26 15:20 +0100
                Re: How to Resize Partition on LVM ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2015-10-27 05:10 +0100

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