On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 19:48 +0100, Gilles CHAUVIN wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 13:33:58 -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
> <ivazquez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 19:02 +0100, Gilles CHAUVIN wrote:
> > > The replacing tool is ext2online but this one seems to only be able to
> > > grow a filesystem (not reducing it). What tool do I have to use to
> > > shrink a ext3 filesystem ?
> >
> > ext2online. Unmount the filesystem first.
> >
> >
>
> Thanks but that doesn't seems to be the correct solution :(
>
> # mount /dev/VG00/GCN
>
> # ext2online /dev/VG00/GCN
> ext2online v1.1.18 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b
> ext2online: new size is same as current (262144)
>
> # umount /dev/VG00/GCN
>
> # ext2online /dev/VG00/GCN
> ext2online v1.1.18 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b
> ext2online: can't find /dev/mapper/VG00-GCN, is it mounted?
> usage: ext2online [...]
>
> Am I doing something wrong or is ext2online not the correct tool for this ?
The ext2online man page says:
... It is possible to use
ext2resize(8) to shrink and enlarge an unmounted filesystem.
--
C. Linus Hicks <lhicks at nc dot rr dot com>
