Can't boot into emergency mode to perform lvresize

[cen]

Hi

I want to decrease the size of my home partition and increase the root 
partition using lvresize. if I understand correctly, I should boot into 
emergency mode so home is not mounted. I followed the documentation, 
adding systemd.unit=emergency.target to linux16 entry but system just 
slowly loads and freezes at fedora logo. I left it for a few minutes, 
nothing happens.


Best regards, cen

[Richard Shaw]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 1:41 PM cen <imbacen(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hi
>
>  I want to decrease the size of my home partition and increase the root
>  partition using lvresize. if I understand correctly, I should boot into
>  emergency mode so home is not mounted. I followed the documentation,
>  adding systemd.unit=emergency.target to linux16 entry but system just
>  slowly loads and freezes at fedora logo. I left it for a few minutes,
>  nothing happens.
>  
I haven't tried emergency mode for that. I usually either boot a LiveUSB of
Fedora or System Rescue CD.

Thanks,
Richard

[Ulf Volmer]

On 28.01.19 20:35, cen wrote:

>  I want to decrease the size of my home partition and increase the
> root
>  partition using lvresize. if I understand correctly, I should boot into
>  emergency mode so home is not mounted. I followed the documentation,
>  adding systemd.unit=emergency.target to linux16 entry but system just
>  slowly loads and freezes at fedora logo. I left it for a few minutes,
>  nothing happens. 
Same behavior here. (boot process hangs at 'switch root')

Please try rescue.target instead. And make sure that you have a root
password set.

Best regards
Ulf

[cen]

Thanks, rescue mode worked out nicely.

On 1/28/19 9:56 PM, Ulf Volmer wrote:
> On 28.01.19 20:35, cen wrote:
>
>> I want to decrease the size of my home partition and increase the root
>> partition using lvresize. if I understand correctly, I should boot into
>> emergency mode so home is not mounted. I followed the documentation,
>> adding systemd.unit=emergency.target to linux16 entry but system just
>> slowly loads and freezes at fedora logo. I left it for a few minutes,
>> nothing happens.
> Same behavior here. (boot process hangs at 'switch root')
>
> Please try rescue.target instead. And make sure that you have a root
> password set.
>
> Best regards
> Ulf
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