Re: shrink lvm to get spare space

["Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson" <ojsbug@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 01:15:17PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote:
> Dear debian community,
> 
> on on of my systems I have
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/debian-root
>                       224G   12G  200G   6% /
> tmpfs                1008M  8.0K 1008M   1% /lib/init/rw
> udev                   10M   80K   10M   1% /dev
> tmpfs                1008M     0 1008M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda1             228M   28M  189M  13% /boot
> 
> Now I would like to shrink / by 30G so that I have 30G for another OS. I
> wonder if this kind of shrinking is possible. I am using ext3.

Try parted out, a graphical frontend is either gparted or qtparted,
but make backups first and use at your own risk etc etc.

HTH

Oli