Re: [linux-lvm] Total free space using added VGs and LVs

[Lou Arnold <larnolda1@gmail.com>]

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Hat do you mean by:"4) switch root (remount won't be good enough since it
changed "underfoot")"
Can you please explain?


On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
>
> > > Ext3 does support shrinking. I've been doing it as far back as 2005.
> >
> > But not while mounted.  (AFAIK)
>
> Poor man's approach:
>
> 1) single user mode
> 2) remount root readonly
> 3) run resize2fs - force it to proceed despite (warranted) dire warnings
> 4) switch root (remount won't be good enough since it changed "underfoot")
>
> Of course, while technically "mounted", it might as well be unmounted
> since you can't keep running applications.
>
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