[linux-lvm] Reducing ext3 LV

[Mark Sargent]

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>Erm, no. Lvreduce will resize your logical volume - if you shrink the LV
>without shrinking the filesystem it contains, your data is toast.
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ok, what do you mean by, resizing your filesystem.? Could you elaborate 
on this some more, thanx.? The LV as is, is 75GB but the data is only 
about 5GB.

>resize2fs is the tool for resizing ext2/3 filesystems. ext2online is
>also available for growing ext2/3 without unmounting.
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I have to unmount the volume for this, yes..?

>Kind regards,
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>Bryn.
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Cheers.

Mark Sargent.