[linux-lvm] Generic resize tool

[Jens Benecke]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 12:42:38PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> Hello, I'm wondering if people are interested in having a more generic
> resize tool than the current e2fsadm.  I've updated e2fsadm to have
> support for the GNU ext2resize tools (ext2resize and ext2online) in
> addition to resize2fs, but I was wondering about adding support for
> reiserfs resizing as well.  At this point e2fsadm isn't a very good name
> for it anymore.
 
One suggestion, also for Heinz: PLEASE put a notice into "lvresize" that
you might actually be better off with e2fsadm, if the lv is formatted ext2.
So that you use

	pvcreate
	vgextend
	e2fsadm

instead of

	pvcreate
	vgextend
	lvextend

and then being stuck with not knowing how (and how much) to resize the FS
within.


Another question: If I shrink a LV, how do I know what PVs in the VG get
freed? i.e. I have  one big LV in VG00 = (hda1 hdb2 hdc1)  and I want to
remove hdb2 out of the VG. 


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