On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 09:02 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > Shrinking a logical volume, though...that's full of pitfalls. I've > gotten bitten repeatedly by the fact that resize2fs and LVM's tools > apparently don't do math the same way when calculating sizes, > especially if you use human-readable units. I now avoid shrinking > logical volumes unless I have an automated tool to do it for me, > because I have never found a safe way to do it manually.
The way I was told to do it, and which seems to work ok: 1. Shrink the fs to significantly smaller than the final desired size 2. Shrink the LV to the desired size 3. Grow the fs to fill the LV I guess that could be a problem if the desired size is very close to the amount of data already in the filesystem, but other than that it seems to work. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
