Hi,
I am trying to decrease my /home partition on SLES 10 SP3 using LVM in YAST. I got the error message " please unmount partition before making changes".
I am able to increase the partitions, however when i tried increasing the SWAP partition i got the same error message as above.
Can somebody please help me with how to unmount partitions so i can decrease their size. Also, would the same work for SWAP partition as well without losing data ?
Thanks a lot.
ericsi wrote:
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Hi,
I am trying to decrease my /home partition on SLES 10 SP3 using LVM in
YAST.[/color]
If you are using LVM for /home then it is a Logical Volume, not a
partition. If it is a partition, LVM won’t help you.
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I am able to increase the partitions, however when i tried increasing
the SWAP partition i got the same error message as above.[/color]
SWAP is usually a primary partition and usually the first or second one
on the drive with / immediately following it. Do you really need to
expand it? Where do you expect to find the space? If / immediately
follows swap, then there is no room to expand it.
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Can somebody please help me with how to unmount partitions so i can
decrease their size.[/color]
See the man pages:
man umount[color=blue]
Also, would the same work for SWAP partition as well without losing[/color]
data ?
Swap is only used when needed while the server is running. There is no
need to save any data in the swap partition. Just delete the partition
and create a new one (preferably when the server isn’t running…).
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Thanks a lot.[/color]
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Kevin Boyle - Knowledge Partner
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