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  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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