[WBEL-users] Howto shrink LVM Logical Volume in WBEL4?

[Eric B.]

Thanks!

Ended up being older versions of resize2fs that were causing me grief.  Had 
to install the e2fsprogs from Fedora Core 3 rpm to work properly.

Eric

"Edward Rudd" <eddie at omegaware.com> wrote in message 
news:1133415561.25422.37.camel at urkle.kaos.realm...
> On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 02:42 -0500, Eric B. wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I went through the trouble of installing / using LVM on my system as I 
>> read
>> that it allows you to easily shrink / grow your logical partitions 
>> without
>> having to deal with new mounting points, etc...  But I find myself in a
>> quandry.  I need to shrink down on of the Ext3 partitions on a Logical
>> Volume on WBEL4, and can't seem to figure out how.
>>
>> According to RH docs, ext2online only works for expanding LogVols, not
>> reducing them.
>
> umount filesystem
> e2fsck -f filesystem
> resize2fs (offline disk resize)
> then lvreduce
>
> -- 
> Edward Rudd <eddie at omegaware.com>