Re: XFS + LVM + Epanding; shrinking XFS??

[Austin Gonyou <austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, here's a REALLY hard question then. How can you grow, with LVM, a XFS
filesystem, that is a LVM raid0? MD's maybe? Anyone?

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Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On Wed, 9 May 2001, KELEMEN Peter wrote:

> * Dirk Steinberg (dws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) [20010509 00:16]:
>
> > BTW: Does anyone know if it is possible to shrink an XFS
> > filesystem? It's possible to shrink an ext2 filesystem with
> > resize2fs, and LVM volumes can also be shrunk with lvreduce.
>
> AFAIK due to internal fs layout, shrinking would involve major
> pain to perform.  Better off dumping the filesystem to tape and
> create a (smaller) new one.
>
> Peter
>
>