On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 06:46:44PM +0000, Jonathan Wiebe wrote: > On Sunday, October 27th, 2024 at 11:29, Geert Stappers wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 06:11:45PM +0000, Jonathan Wiebe wrote: > > > On Sunday, October 27th, 2024 at 02:28, Geert Stappers wrote: > > > > On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 05:04:19AM +0000, Jonathan Wiebe wrote: > > > > > > > > > I ran into an issue with my root partition being too small. My plan > > > > > was to reduce the size of my home partition and increase the size of > > > > > my root partition. Here is what I have done: > > > > > .... > > > > > Logical volume debian--vg/home successfully resized. > > > > > > > > Acknowledge > > > > NOTE: Only the logical volume was resized. [1] > > > > > > > > > This is where I am stalled. The prompt has not come back and I have > > > > > > > > Even on slow hardware is ten hour response time an indicator for > > > > "something is wrong". > > > > > > > > Input for follow-up: > > > > * Powercycle the system. > > > > * Continue with reaching the intended goal > > > > * complete resizing of /home [1] > > > > * resize / [1] > > > > > > > > > > > > [1] Be aware of the command `resize2fs` and the flag `--resizefs` for > > > > the command `lvresize`. > > > > > > After a power cycle the system came back up normally > > > > OK, nice. > > > > > and I was able to continue. > > > > And which notes will be shared with this mailinglist? > > > > After the reboot I continued with: > # resize2fs /dev/mapper/debian--vg-home > > # lvextend -L +20G /dev/mapper/debian--vg-root > (Saving some free space for future use.) > At this point I rebooted and forced a fsck on the root partition by > appending fsck.mode=force to the grub boot line starting with linux... > After a successful fsck: > # resize2fs /dev/mapper/debian--vg-root > And finally rebooted the system and checked that all partitions were the > expected sizes. > Thanks all for your help!
Thanks for reporting back. For those who read this for their resize adventure: These days can LV resize / LV reduce be done on the fly. No need for unmount and `fsck`. Just add --resizefs to the LV commands. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse
