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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users resize2fs open: Is a directory while opening /home Post 302540918 by pludi on Friday 22nd of July 2011 03:09:10 AM
Old 07-22-2011
After it's unmounted, /home doesn't point to any block device anymore, and thus resize2fs doesn't know where to work. Use the /dev path for the device instead.
 

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