From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Zarochentsev Subject: Re: shrink reiserfs Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:07:35 +0300 Message-ID: <20050123190735.GH10921@backtop.namesys.com> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <18298.62.135.89.53.1106502596.squirrel@mail.infinitylimited.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jake Hawkes Cc: 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). > > >> 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? -- Alex.