- Unmount home partiton with: ]# umount /home
- Show logical volumes and look for the home volume with: ]# lvdisplay
--- Logical volume ---
LV Path /dev/centos/home
LV Name home
VG Name centos
3. Remove the home volume with: ]# lvremove /dev/myhost/home This will not work on RockyLinux for RockyLinux you need to:
#] umount /dev/rl/home
#] lvchange -an -v /dev/rl/home
#] lvremove -vf /dev/rl/home
#] lvextend -l +100%FREE -r /dev/mapper/rl-root
4. Verify free space with: ]# vgs
5. Identify root location with ]# df -h
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/centos-root 410094592 27746888 382347704 7% /
6. Resize root partition to use freed space with: ]# lvextend -l +100%FREE -r /dev/mapper/centos-root
7. Remove line with home directory (comment out with #) from /etc/fstab the line that needs to be Remmed out is:
/dev/mapper/rl-home /home xfs defaults 0 0
Add # to front of line so it looks like this:
#/dev/mapper/rl-home /home xfs defaults 0 0
8. Reboot