Ken, the missing task was to shrink the LV. On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 03:23:41PM -0600, Ken Fuchs wrote: > Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: > > >the size of your filesystem and logical volume differs already. > >That's why e2fsadm fails. > >Did you eventually run resize2fs in order to shrink the filesystem ? > > >Your logical volume size is 1091456MB (32MB/PE * 34108 PE) but your > >filesystem size is 963584GB (941GB * 1024MB/GB; check with > >"tune2fs -l" and look for the block count and block size to calculate > >this correctly). > > >In case the result shows, that your filesystem is already smaller than the LV, > >lvreduce the logical volume appropriately. > > >Use the block count * block size result and round it up to the next PE! > > To avoid an error in calculating the correct number of logical extents, > and possibly doing an lvreduce(8) to a size smaller than the filesystem: > > Use resize_ext2(8) without a size argument. This will resize the ext2 > or ext3 filesystem to be the same size as the logical volume containing > it. After doing this, e2fsadm(8) can be used to resize the filesystem > and logical volume "simultaneously" to any desired size (that can > contain the filesystem's data). > > Sincerely, > > Ken Fuchs <kfuchs@winternet.com> > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.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 Red Hat, Inc. Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@RedHat.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
