G'abor, the warning lvreduce displays is ment to make the user aware, that the end of the LV, which could still hold valid data, will be dropped. BTW: you can avoid the confirmation with "lvreduce -f". On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:09:36AM -0400, G'abor Luk'acs wrote: > Hi, > > > I am in the process of installin Linux 8.0, and I have downloaded and > compiled lvm version 1.0, I patched the kernel, compiled it, etc. So > everything semes to work, except for one thing: lvreduce somehow damages > the whole volume group in a way that it becomes inconsistent. What does vgck tell you about it? > > Everything else seems to work fine, so I really cannot understand why it > is happening. The whole message of lvreduce seems to be strange a bit: > > when I am redicing an LV when it is enabled then it askes for > confirmation, but when I disabled it just to see what happens, it wrote me > that since it is not active I cannot reduce it. > > I am completely aware to the fact that first I have to resize the FS > inside, but it is not the question, as resize2fs seems to work pefectly > well. Alright. > > Somehow my feeling is that something is wroking with the consistency > checking mechanism. > > I would really apprecaite if you could advise me about it. > > > I am looking forward to hearing from you. > > > Thanks in advance, > > Gabor Lukacs > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
