[LUNI] Resizing my LVM

[Barry Von Ahsen]

David Terrell wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:24:36PM -0500, Martin Maney wrote:
>> On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:38:57PM -0400, Keith T. Garner wrote:
>>> Also, you didn't mention the distribution or kernel you're on, but if its a
>>> new enough kernel and new enough e2fsprogs, you can do the resizing without
>>> unmounting the filesystem.
>> Contrariwise, if you do need to run the filesystem resize offline, you
>> might encounter some difficulty unmounting /home if you get root by
>> su[do] from a normal login.
>> promised?
> 
> 
> cd / ; sudo umount /home 
> 
> Should work just fine.  
> 
> Now, umounting /var via sudo could cause problems, especially if you
> try to re-mount with sudo and /var/run/sudo is gone. :)
> 

I was able to use ext2online to resize / yesterday

-barry