How to reduce the size of a non-root LVM and assign that space to the root LVM?
Issue
- Need to reduce the size of a non-root LVM and assign that space to the root LVM as / (the root filesystem) is running out of space.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6
- Logical Volume Manager 2 (LVM2)
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