How to move free-space from the root filesystem to swap, with LVM.

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Issue

  • Need to add more swap space to the system and have free space in the root filesystem.
  • Reduce root filesystem from rescue
  • Increase swap logical volume in rescue
  • lvreduce, lvextend, mkswap, resize2fs

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Root filesystem and swap space are both backed by a Logical Volume (LVM).

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