Mike, I saw an alternative that used a Knoppix cd. Basically you boot up the live cd and then resize.
Maybe you've already tried that route with the "rescue CD." On the other hand, Knoppix might do a better job of leaving your hard drive un-mounted. Matt. -----Original Message----- From: Mike Schieuer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 10:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [sclug-generallist] WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!! So, why would distro's like Red Hat, Fedora and CentOS give the user a chance to create a box that had / in a Logical Volume. I've got a client who is looking to add drive space to their box. And / is in /dev/VolGroup00/LogGroup00 so having never added a drive with LVM I go googling... Looks like no big deal to you go to resize your Logical Volume. You need to unmount it... So how do you unmount / and run a command (resize2fs). You use the rescue CD, boot up and it nicely mounts your drives in /mnt/sysimage which looks ok until you try to unmount /mnt/sysimage (Device is busy). So has anyone done this? I've looked high and low and found nothing on the net. I did find fuser -km which is supposed to let me unmount /mnt/sysimage. But guess what? It doesn't work... Anyone have any ideas or do I need to get out a tape and start backing up. Mike
