[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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