Appreciate the response although I realized a messed up large volume lvm requires time and which I didn't have in this case and resorted to backup and recreated volumes all over new .
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I realize I went wrong with resize2fs thinking that it would reduce my lvm by 100G but it actually reduced the total volume size to 100G , i-e an lvm of 1.7T
resize2fs /dev/vg0/data 100G ( i thought it would reduce the by 100G but dropped the block device size to total of 100G )
so to i guess to do this right i should have
resize2fs /dev/vg0/data 1.6T or (1600G)
and then lvreduce -n data -L 100G /dev/vg0/data ( to reduce the lvm by 100 )
I even tried the vgcfgrestore on the archived lvm metadata file but that just restored the metadata (back to original volume size however I still had a bad file system ) .
Tariq
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Bryn M. Reeves <bmr@redhat.com> wrote:
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On 05/18/2012 12:13 AM, Ray Morris wrote:Not with most file systems. When you ask resize2fs to make a file
> Stop. Don't do anything else until you are sure of what to do next.
> You will not lose data by studying. You can lose data by trying to
> fix it.
>
>> resize2fs /dev/vg0/data 100G lvreduce -L -100G -n /dev/vg0/data*
>
> A 100 GB filesystem needs a block device of around 110 GB. So
> this cut off the end of your filesystem. (The device needs to hold
> the journal as well as the FS, for example.)
system 100G it will make it (within rounding limits) 100G's worth of
blocks in length. This is the actual space required on the disk (i.e.
the argument is the size of the file system image not the maximum free
space within it).
E.g.:
# lvcreate -L 100M -n l0 tvg0
Logical volume "l0" created
# mke2fs -j /dev/tvg0/l0
mke2fs 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=1024 (log=0)
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
25688 inodes, 102400 blocks
[...]
102400 1024-byte blocks is exactly 100M (MiB to be pedantic).
Resize to 50M gives:
# resize2fs /dev/tvg0/l0 50M
resize2fs 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
Resizing the filesystem on /dev/tvg0/l0 to 51200 (1k) blocks.
The filesystem on /dev/tvg0/l0 is now 51200 blocks long.
51200 1024 byte blocks is exactly 50MiB.
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Regards,
Bryn.
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