From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id i1DLeni10565 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:40:49 -0500 Received: from behemoth.csg.stercomm.com (e3hst100.csg.stercomm.com [204.214.3.100]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id i1DLemb20228 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:40:49 -0500 Received: from stercomm.com (unknown [10.20.20.10]) by behemoth.csg.stercomm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C46D4BBF for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:40:42 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <402D419A.8060000@stercomm.com> From: Chris Cox MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM Problems :) References: <402CD9E4.8070402@demonlord.de> <20040213143846.GB10943@redhat.com> <402D0433.5000909@demonlord.de> <20040213173203.GA13188@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20040213173203.GA13188@redhat.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-lvm-admin@redhat.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@redhat.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@redhat.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Fri Feb 13 16:40:22 2004 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: ... > BTW: you should either run e2fsadm to grow/shrink the unmounted > filesystem _and_ the logical volume in one go > -or- > use the filesystem resizer and lvextend/lvreduce in the correct order > (lvextend + grow fs -or- shrink fs + lvreduce). > > Problem with the later is getting the size arguments right ;-) Be overly conservative and just grow the filesystem to fill the leftover space afterwards. So overguess on shrinking the filesystem, choose something safe for the lv shrink, then grow the filesystem to fill.