Hi all, Fedora 17, 64bit Ubuntu 12.04 desktop 64bit HD 160G Ubuntu 12.04 has been installed on the HD first, several days ago, taking up the whole disc without partitioning. Later I added/installed Fedora 17 selecting the "Shrink" option with LVM partitioning and saved the bootloader on /dev/sda1 to make them dualboot. Installation was successful with dualboot option. Unfortunately by mistake I retained insufficient space for Ubuntu 12.04, only about 100M left when it is up. Fedora 17 is on LVM partition but NOT Ubuntu 12.04 Then I took following steps to shrink /home of Fedora 17 # vgchange -a y # resize2fs -f /dev/mapper/vg_fedora17-lv_home # e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/vg_fedora17-lv_home e2fsck 1.42 (29-Nov-2011) Code: Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information /dev/mapper/vg_fedora17-lv_home: 477/5070848 files (5.9% non-contiguous), 383520/20258816 blocks # resize2fs /dev/mapper/vg_fedora17-lv_home 9G Code: resize2fs 1.42 (29-Nov-2011) Resizing the filesystem on /dev/mapper/vg_fedora17-lv_home to 2359296 (4k) blocks. The filesystem on /dev/mapper/vg_fedora17-lv_home is now 2359296 blocks long. # lvreduce -L 10G /dev/vg_fedora17/lv_home Code: ..... Do you really want to reduce lv_home? [y/n]: y Reducing logical volume lv_home to 10.00 GiB Logical volume lv_home successfully resized Now about 68G free space is available. But I have no solution to resize / of Ubuntu 12.04 taking up the free space. Please help. TIA B.R. satimis
You can boot into the Gparted Live CD and resize your partitions: http://www.howtoforge.com/partitioning_with_gparted Another, more diffcult solution is described in http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_resizing_ext3_partitions
Thanks for your links. I tried Gparted before. Unfortunately LVM is NOT supported. Therefore I have to run those steps as posted on my original posting to shrink /dev/mapper/vg_fedora17-lv_home form 78G to 10G. Now about 68G free space is available. Unfortunately Gparted couldn't find the free space. B.R. satimis
