On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 05:25, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote: > 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. It seems to be. te case. A few weeks ago, I was on travel, and reduced a partition, and it did not come back after reduction. I did it the same way as I always do...resize, reduce, remount. When I tried to remount, it gave me the bad filesystem error... so I thought that might be the problem. Thanks for clarifying. > > 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/ -- --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 ============================================================================ Those who trade liberty for security have neither. _______________________________________________ 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/
