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

[Edward Rudd]

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>