On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 11:58:31AM +0100, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote: > Heinz, > LVM1 contains the e2fsadm tool which prevents > you form doing things like that. I know we are never going to be able to stop everybody who _really_ wants to shoot themselves in the foot from doing so, but I wonder, perhaps if there should be "something extra" that needs to be done to manipulate the size of volumes with filesystems on them (i.e. probe the lv to see what's on it) directly (i.e. lvreduce, lvexpand). This would of course be used to encourage the use of the convenience tools like e2fsadm. Perhaps an environment variable or an "expert switch" on the command line or something. Not using the switch or setting the env. variable would cause a probe of the lv and if there was found to be a filesystem on it, it would prompt the user to use a convenience tool (for that filesystem type) to perform his task, or set the switch/variable, if he really wanted to go ahead. Or maybe this is all just too much handholding. b. -- Brian J. Murrell
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