Re: shrink reiserfs

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> On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 10:49:56AM -0700, Jake Hawkes wrote:
>> Alex Zarochentsev said:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 08:48:14AM -0700, Jake Hawkes wrote:
>> >> Hi.
>> >>
>> >>  resize_reiserfs says that there are already too many allocated blocks.
>> >
>> > which resize_reiserfs command produces the error message?
>> 
>> resize_reiserfs -v -s -1G /dev/hda4
>> 
>> and when that failed, I tried
>> 
>> resize_reiserfs -v -s -1M /dev/hda4

> and it failed too?

> which reiserfsprogs version are you using?  It is possible
> that this bug is fixed already in the latest release of
> reiserfsprogs (3.6.19).

  Just a side-note. After upgrading to latest reiserfsprogs, then do a
  fsck before attempting to resize the filesystem.

  ~S

>> 
>> >> jake@jacobh jake $ df -h
>> >> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> >> /dev/hda4              38G  7.1G   31G  20% /
>> >> /dev/hda2              16G   15G  1.6G  91% /mnt/xp
>> >> none                  506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> so how can this be possible if it is only 20% used?
>> >
>> > the shrinker can't make the fs less than 7.1G in size.
>> 
>> 
>> I had to read that af ew times before I realised you were talking about my
>> installation and not a general reiserfs issue :D
>> 
>> given the command above then, what can I do?