lvresize doesn't work when shrinking filesystems if a similiar named LV is mounted

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Issue

  • If /dev/vg00/lv_fs2 is mounted I am not able to shrink /dev/vg00/lv_fs with lvresize -L <new size> -r /dev/vg00/lv_fs. This command fails with Do you want to unmount "<Mountpoint of lv_fs2>"? [Y|n] and will not shrink the volume.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6

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