On 2015-12-21, Sander Kuusemets <sander.kuusemets at ut.ee> wrote: > And while dmesg reported that it recognized the partition change, LVM > did still not see it. So eventually, I was still forced to reboot, after > which everything (pvresize, lvresize, resize2fs) worked fine. Environment: > > * A VMWare virtual machine > * CentOS 6.7 (Final) > > Is there any other way I'm missing? Is this caused by the fact that I > was trying to resize a partition that is under the root file system? If > so, then is it really impossible to do it live? As far as I know (and perhaps my knowledge is dated) it is not possible to resize a partition on the boot device without a reboot. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "partition under the root filesystem", but I'm guessing you mean that you may have been trying to resize /. If that's the case, then you may be able to do this only if /boot is on a different device. If you were resizing / because it filled, what exactly filled up? If it was someplace like /tmp or /var, you may want to consider migrating those to separate filesystems, probably under LVM, so that you have a better chance of this succeeding. If you can have your VMWare admin attach a second device where you can put these filesysems even better, that's sure to work without requiring a reboot. --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us