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

Stuart D. Gathman stuart at bmsi.com
Sun Oct 25 19:17:07 UTC 2009


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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