> Online shrinking is more difficult to achieve than online growing, and > is much less frequently needed, it usually happens due to bad planning. > I know some filesystem on different oses (namely vxfs) and btrfs on linux > allow online shrinking, ext3/4 and xfs don't. Ext3 does support shrinking. I've been doing it as far back as 2005. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie _______________________________________________ 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/