And yes, by that I set the truncation of the FS (thanks, Lars for pointing that out) in stone ... Joh Johannes Graumann wrote: > mke2fs -b 4096 -t ext3 -S /dev/mapper/mygroup-home > > on the unmounted file system solved my issue. > > Joh > > Johannes Graumann wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm running debian testing and "/home" is an ext3 fs. I run the following >> order of commands to shrink the fs and the corresponding partition: >> >> e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/mygroup-home >> resize2fs /dev/mapper/mygroup-home 55329357 >> lvreduce -L 208.5g /dev/mapper/mygroup-home >> >> The latter was supposed to be .5g bigger than necessary (paranoia >> regarding the data integrity kicking in). >> >> "e2fck /dev/mapper/mygroup-home" now stops with superblock/filesystem >> size mismatch, but I can't grow the fs into the new partition size, as >> "resize2fs" wants "e2fsck" (stopping with the mismatch) first. >> >> The fs is mountable and everything seems allright otherwise. >> >> Any pointers on how to update the superblock's size statement? >> >> Thanks, Joh >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/