Now completely off topic for this thread and how LVM could have helped is if /home were on a thinly provisioned logical volume. In that case you can effectively shrink even an XFS volume by using fstrim, which will cause unused logical extents to be freed back into the thin pool, from which you can create a new thin LV, and then 'btrfs add' that LV to the existing Btrfs volume. But as we're talking about fixed conventional "thick" logical volumes, it is anchored to fact XFS grows but doesn't shrink. So no such bail out. And thin provisioning isn't for the feint of heart as it adds another layer, effectively another LV called a thin pool, in between the VG and the virtual sized LV you actually put a file system on. It's... a bit confusing for while. Chris Murphy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org