From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Cryptsetup-reencrypt failing with error with option --new reduce-device-size
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 04:33:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140621023336.GA7535@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lo2bsm$8p7$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 00:16:53 CEST, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 06/20/2014 09:16 AM, Abhrajyoti Kirtania wrote:
> >Thank you for the reply.
> >
> >How can i create unused space (shrink) at the end of original divide? As per the
> >man page "fdisk -u /dev/sdb # move sdb1 partition end + 4096 sectors" not giving
> >expected result.
> >
> >Even i tried with resize2fs but not helping
> >
> >test@ubuntu:~/in-place$ sudo resize2fs /dev/sda8 4M
> >
> >resize2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
> >
> >resize2fs: New size smaller than minimum (45572)
>
> You have tried to resize the filesystem _to_ 4 megabytes, not reduce
> its current size _by_ 4 Megabytes. Your current filesystem will of
> course not fit in 4 Megabytes.
If there is more than, say, 3.5MB of data in it, then definitely not.
Arno
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-21 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-20 12:36 [dm-crypt] Cryptsetup-reencrypt failing with error with option --new reduce-device-size Abhrajyoti Kirtania
2014-06-20 13:20 ` Milan Broz
2014-06-20 13:29 ` Ondrej Kozina
2014-06-20 14:16 ` Abhrajyoti Kirtania
2014-06-20 19:26 ` Arno Wagner
2014-06-20 22:16 ` Robert Nichols
2014-06-21 2:33 ` Arno Wagner [this message]
2014-06-24 16:53 ` Abhrajyoti Kirtania
2014-06-24 17:57 ` Milan Broz
2014-06-25 8:34 ` Abhrajyoti Kirtania
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