resize2fs broken?

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Sun Mar 15 21:23:52 UTC 2009


>>>>> "bl" == brad longo <Bl0ngo067 at aim.com> writes:

bl> On-line shrinking from 14327808 to 13107200 not supported.

bl> Is this not supported in the current kernel, or can anyone think
bl> of a reason as to why this would not work?

resize2fs will not do online shrinking of filesystems; you must
unmount the filesystem before you can shrink it.  This seems to be
well-documented in the resize2fs manpage.

 - J<




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