Re: can I shrink an xfs?

["Josef 'Jeff' Sipek" <jeffpc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 06:29:58PM +0100, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to shrink an xfs? I tried using xfs_growfs to no avail.
 
There's no official/supported way to do it. There might be some tool to do
it, but I'm not aware of any.

Dave, et. al.: why not support shrinking? I know, inode numbers and whatnot,
but that's already being messed up (at least to a degree) with the noikeep
mount option. I think that shrinking would be useful to have - even if you
have to pass it --i-know-what-i-am-doing kind of option. Maybe a offline
shrink via repair would be more viable?

Josef 'Jeff' Sipek.

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