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Re: How to Rezize Partition on LVM



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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