We use Reiser3 here and it can grow a volume whilst it is mounted, but you have to unmount the volume before you can shrink it. The man pages for resize_reiserfs indicate that it should be used on unmounted volumes... AFAIK, Reiser is the only filesystem in common use that allows volumes to be reduced. > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com] > On Behalf Of Gunther Clasen > Sent: 16 March 2006 09:03 > To: LVM general discussion and development > Subject: Re: online resize > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2006, Michael Schulz wrote: > > > can please anybody tell me where I can found > > an aktual informaiton about LVM2 and the filesystems > > which are currently support online resizing? > > I use reiserfs for quite a number of years now and it seems to work > fine. You can resize the volume when it is mounted, although I prefer > unmounting it first if that is possible. It also shrinks, I believe even > online, but I don't do shrinking very often. (I have done, but > filesystems tend to grow rather than shrink.) > > mkreiserfs > resize_reiserfs > > Regards, > > Gunther > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
