From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Spam Subject: Re: shrink reiserfs Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:11:43 +0100 Message-ID: <1461961767.20050123201143@tnonline.net> References: <17956.62.135.89.53.1106495294.squirrel@mail.infinitylimited.net> <20050123171105.GG10921@backtop.namesys.com> <18298.62.135.89.53.1106502596.squirrel@mail.infinitylimited.net> <20050123190735.GH10921@backtop.namesys.com> Reply-To: Spam Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20050123190735.GH10921@backtop.namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com > 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?