[TriLUG] cool underexposed Linux toys - LVM

Jason White jason at jw2.org
Fri Jul 25 01:36:40 EDT 2003


* Ron Joffe (rjoffe at yahoo.com) [030724 15:53]:
> On Thursday 24 July 2003 10:57 am, Magnus wrote:
> > On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 10:18  AM, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> > > 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?

> > Per the HOWTO, you can shrink reiserfs if you unmount it first.

> > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/x638.html

> Shrink seems to work just fine on my SuSE LVM with Reiser, I've even done it 
> without unmounting (although holding my breath while the operation went 
> through)

Shrinking reiserfs has worked fine for me under Debian and the
standard command-line LVM utils (unmounted partition first). 





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