Hi, > I'm having some difficulty finding a method to shrink my /home to expand > my /. They both correspond to LVMs. It is my understanding that one > cannot shrink a xfs filesystem. One must back it up (xfsdump), remove > (lvremove) redefine it and then restore it back (xfsrestore). > > Okay, I'm running into a problem where /home needs to be "unused". If > tried going in to "maintance mode", but I ran into a problem with the > mount command (after issuing a 'chroot /sysroot'). I then tried using > SystemRescueCD to boot to, but it wouldn't mount my 32TB RAID USB drive > (something about too big). > > Any thoughts or suggestions? What is the problem if you boot directly into maintenance mode? Then it should be possible to backup home to a remote destination, unmount /home, remove the home LV, expand /, recreate home and mount it, restore from backup and you're done. No need to use any SystemRescueCD or other tool. Regards, Simon