Re: shrink reiserfs

[Alex Zarochentsev <zam@namesys.com>]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 12:11:36PM -0700, Jake Hawkes wrote:
> Alex Zarochentsev said:
> > 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?
> 
> yep
> 
> 
> >
> > which reiserfsprogs version are you using?  It is possible
> > that this bug is fixed already in the latest release of
> > reiserfsprogs (3.6.19).
> 
> jacobh log # esearch reiserfsprogs
> [ Results for search key : reiserfsprogs ]
> [ Applications found : 1 ]
> 
> *  sys-fs/reiserfsprogs
>       Latest version available: 3.6.19
>       Latest version installed: 3.6.18
>       Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest]
>       Homepage:    http://www.namesys.com/
>       Description: Reiserfs Utilities

yes, it see, new reiserfsprogs has this bug (v3.0.9 does not :-/) .

As a workaround  I suggest don't use relative values in current resizer.
please try resize_reiserfs -v -s 21G /dev/hda4 .

> I'm using 3.6.18

Thanks for the report.

-- 
Alex.