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

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

> Hi,
> 
> Yes. It really works. No cheating involved... :-)
> 
> 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.
> 
> It would be a shame if XFS would be lacking this
> feature...
> 
> Cheers,
>       Dirk

I answered this one a long time ago, unfortunately no, you cannot shrink xfs,
growing is really easy, shrink is a lot of work, and ext2 metadata is really
simple compared to XFS. However, if someone wants to take it on I would be
happy to offer suggestions on what needs doing.

Steve