[TriLUG] cool underexposed Linux toys - LVM

Tanner Lovelace lovelace at wayfarer.org
Thu Jul 24 10:18:17 EDT 2003


On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 10:10, John Beimler wrote:
> quotation from Justin L. Skinner <bofh at speakeasy.net> [on 030724 09:38]:
> 
> > And when you combine LVM with reiserfs or some other journaled f/s it gives 
> > one even more power to expand file systems/volumes on fly.  One thing I 
> > liked about some of the proprietary operating systems.
> 
> As a note, I've only had luck shrinking ext2/ext3. (Oh, and Veritas file
> system.)
> 

AFAIK, XFS specifically states that shrinking is not supported,
so keep that in mind.  Don't know about resier or JFS.  Anyone
else know for sure?

Cheers,
Tanner
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