On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 02:15:41PM -0700, Erick Calder wrote: > > What it's warning you about is reducing the size of the LV without first > changing > > the size of the filesystem that is using it. > > aha... maybe I could encourage the man page's maintainer to make that point > a little clearer? I've added some extra words to the lvreduce man page to help clarify matters, and make it a little less scary! > > If you are using an ext2 filesystem then you can use the e2fsadm command: > > > > # e2fsadm -l -1 /dev/LVM/mp3z > > I performed the above command expecting I would have to do an lvreduce later > but it <gasp> did it for me... I haven't done a compare against backups to > make sure I didn't lose data ok but I still have the problem... here's the > output (but read beyond): It'll be fine. e2dsadm does the filesystem AND LV changes in the right order. > > by the time this code is run I've already un-mounted /var/LVM/mp3z and done > a "vgchange -a n"... so in retrospect I can say that the only thing that has > changed (I wasn't having these errors before installing LVM) is that I did a > "pvcreate /dev/hdc"... > > is the info above of any use and is there anything else I can try? Don't reboot? I'm out of ideas now, I'll have think.... patrick
