Yeah, I tried that but ran into a problem. It came up fine in single-user/maintenance mode. The mount command shows all of the mounted file systems, but after I 'chroot /sysroot', the mount failed (with some problem with mtab, sorry don't have the exact error message). So I couldn't mount my 32TB RAID (where the xfsdump file was). On 5/13/2020 12:48 AM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos