[linux-lvm] resizing reiserfs on top of LVM

Alexander Zarochentcev zam at odintsovo.comcor.ru
Thu Apr 20 16:46:00 UTC 2000


 AK> On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 11:10:09AM +0200, Harald Milz wrote:
 >> Hi,
 >> 
 >> I am very fond of resizing filesystems on top of LVM (having worked
 >> with and loving IBM AIX a lot too :-) therefore I wrote a little tool
 >> to integrate resize_reiserfs and lv{reduce|extend} similar to e2fsadm
 >> wrote by Tytso.  This is a first approach which works as designed for
 >> me. Please beat the shit out of it to find design errors, flaws and bugs.

 AK> Did you actually try to shrink a FS ? AFAIK resize_reiserfs does not
 AK> support it yet (only growing) 

The resize_reiserfs supports off-line shrinking since 3.5.19. This is still
APLHA version of fs shrinker.  

 AK> -Andi

Best regards, 
        Alex.
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Alexander Zarochentcev, mailto:zam at odintsovo.comcor.ru



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