Reducing logical volume space. Will it destroy the data Please advice.
Jack Challen
jack_challen at ocsl.co.uk
Fri Feb 17 09:35:03 UTC 2006
unix syzadmin wrote:
> I am wondering if I can use the e2fsadm command at all. Does the e2fsadm
> command work for ext3 filesystem (/dev/vg00/backup is ext3 filesystem). The
> manual page for e2fsadm command mentions only about ext2 filesystem. Please
> suggest.
I'm pretty sure it would work. Ext3 is simply ext2 with journaling
features (this might be grossly simplified -- I've not checked
properly). In fact you can mount an ext3 filesystem as ext2. It'd
probably require an "e2fsck -f" on the filesystem after you umount it
and before you resize it though.
cheers
jack
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