is it safe to reduce the size of the root logical volume?

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Mon Apr 13 02:47:09 UTC 2009


On Sunday, April 12 2009, Robert P. J. Day said:
>   given that the default f11 install is to make one honking big root
> logical volume with an ext4 file system, i'm thinking that it won't be
> unheard of for some folks to later want to reduce the size of that and
> create a couple new logical volumes (/home, for example).
> 
>   does f11 officially support reducing the root filesystem and logical
> volume on the fly?

online shrinking of ext* still isn't supported afaik

Jeremy




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