Re: [linux-lvm] lvm2 & e2fsadm (or safe scripted resizing)

From: Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvm2 & e2fsadm (or safe scripted resizing)
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 10:49:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040620084910.GC3519@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54553.192.168.1.12.1087519164.squirrel@192.168.1.12>

(e2)fsadm code for LVM2 is in the development pipe for integration.
Will take a bit of time still... 

On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 07:39:24PM -0500, Nick Bartos wrote:
> >From what I can see, there is no e2fsadm util for lvm2.
> 
> I want to script parition resizes, but without that tool I cringe a
> little.  I need to write a script that automates this in a distro, so it
> needs to be completely scripted and very reliably reproduceable.  I am
> using e2fsadm now which works very well since I can just tell it how much
> to shrink/grow the partition, without getting the size first.
> 
> I don't mind doing this manually, but I want to make damn sure that I
> calculate everything right.  I don't want to miss something by a byte here
> or there.
> 
> If someone could contribute a good script or some directions on exactly
> how I get the right numbers, I would appreciate it.  I could just start
> doing it myself, but I am afraid that I would make it work, but then miss
> something where in some case of rounding I would mess up the partition.
> 
> I was also looking at the reiserfs utility, it looks like that works
> nicely as far as I can tell, there wouldn't seem to be any need to
> calculate anything.  Possibly I will consider upgrading the ext3 paritions
> to reiserfs as well.
> 
> 
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