[linux-lvm] lvreduce nightmare

Stuart D Gathman stuart at bmsi.com
Fri May 18 00:21:04 UTC 2012


Long ago, Nostradamus foresaw that on May 17, Ray Morris would write:

> Stop. Don't do anything else until you are sure of what to do next.
> You will not lose data by studying. You can lose data by trying to fix
> it.
>
>> resize2fs /dev/vg0/data 100G
>> lvreduce -L -100G -n /dev/vg0/data*

This reduced the LV by 100G.  Probably *not* what you wanted.




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