From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k2GISe103392 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:28:40 -0500 Received: from mail.davidb.org (mail.davidb.org [66.93.32.219]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k2GISWg8020547 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:28:32 -0500 Received: from davidb by mail.davidb.org with local (Exim 4.54 #1 (Debian)) id 1FJxD5-0004ol-IL for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:28:31 -0800 Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:28:31 -0800 From: David Brown Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] online resize Message-ID: <20060316182831.GA18032@old.davidb.org> References: <20060316130827.5D17912ED4@bluewhale.planbit.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: LVM general discussion and development On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 12:12:34PM -0600, Nate Carlson wrote: > On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Roger Lucas wrote: > >We use Reiser3 here and it can grow a volume whilst it is mounted, but > >you have to unmount the volume before you can shrink it. > > > >The man pages for resize_reiserfs indicate that it should be used on > >unmounted volumes... > > > >AFAIK, Reiser is the only filesystem in common use that allows volumes > >to be reduced. > > Note that Reiser4 no longer supports this. :( According to the wikipedia page on Reiser4 , Namesys will add this if someone pays them to. ext2/3 has supported resizing for quite some time. Dave Brown