CentOS7 – Remove /home And Expand / After Install?
I did a default install and after installing some other things I
realized that a lot of space was allocated to /home as an lvm that is never going to be used. Is it possible to remove the lvm and grow the root (xfs) filesystem without starting over?
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That should be very possible
For example if you have LVM for your root and home filesystems like the following
/dev/Volume00/rootfs
/dev/Volume00/home
Do a pvscan to see how much space is available in your Volume Group
/usr/sbin/pvscan
If you have anything on /home you want then you can arrange to move it, tar it up, move it to the side, whatever. You can then:
umount /home sed -i -e