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Hello friends , I have a home directory which is mounted on the LVM partition, How can i reduce the size of LVM partiotion without loosing the data on home ...
  1. 06-03-2009 #1
    Sanjay177
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    Reduce Lvm Size

    Hello friends ,

    I have a home directory which is mounted on the LVM partition,
    How can i reduce the size of LVM partiotion without loosing the data on home directory...
    whenever i use lvreduce command it show me a warning mesg that the whole data will be lost...
    pls help me reducing the size of LVM partition without loosing my home directory data

    Thanks
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  2. 06-04-2009 #2
    rituraj.goswami
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    well seriously speaking backupyou data then resize your lvm. you could try doing that and end up losig all your data. so on the positive note backup your data.
    There is nothing impossible, for everything is possible; the impossible only takes a bit longer than the possible.
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