Bradley, could it accidentially be, that your LV was 2GB large before ? That'ld explain the resulting 1GB, because lvreduce shows the absolute resulting size. On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:36:44PM -0400, Bradley M Alexander wrote: > I ran across this today, and wanted some clarification if I could. I am > running kernel 2.4.21 and lvm 1.0.7. > > I needed to resize a partition, reducing it by 1GB. As I have done in the > past, went into single user mode, umounted the partition did a > resize_reiserfs -s-1GB /dev/vg00/var > > This went fine, then I tried to reduce the size of the lv, using > lvreduce -L-1G /dev/vg00/var > > lvreduce -- WARNING: Reducing active logical volume to 1 GB > lvreduce -- THIS MAY DESTROY YOUR DATA (filesystem etc.) > lvreduce -- do you really want to reduce "/dev/vg00/var"? [y/n]: > > Isn't the -L-1G option for lvreduce supposed to reduce the lv _by_ the > requested amount rather than _to_ that size? Yes. > If specify -L1G, that should > be an absolute value rather than a relative value. Correct. > > Am I missing something here? No. > Would this be better addressed to the Debian > maintainer for the lvm tools? Well, that's Patrick Caulfield and he's on my team reading this mail as well :) > > Thanks, > -- > --Brad > ============================================================================ > Bradley M. Alexander | > gTLD SysAdmin, Security Engineer | storm [at] tux.org > Debian/GNU Linux Developer | storm [at] debian.org > ============================================================================ > Key fingerprints: > DSA 0x54434E65: 37F6 BCA6 621D 920C E02E E3C8 73B2 C019 5443 4E65 > RSA 0xC3BCBA91: 3F 0E 26 C1 90 14 AD 0A C8 9C F0 93 75 A0 01 34 > ============================================================================ > If all you can see out of the window is ground that's going > round and round and all you can hear is commotion coming from the > passenger compartment, things are not at all as they should be. > --Rules of the Air, #18 > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- 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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/