- 21. Re: Shrink an XFS filesystem? (LVM) (score: 1)
- Author: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 20:02:22 +0100
- Currently it isn't, other than dump/mkfs/restore Ever only if someone implements it. AFAIK there are no plans for it, but of course the source is available if someone is motivated. -Andi
- /archives/xfs/2002-01/msg02375.html (8,340 bytes)
- 22. Re: Shrink an XFS filesystem? (LVM) (score: 1)
- Author: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
- Date: 18 Jan 2002 13:08:15 -0600
- Might that in place filesystem converter work for this? Steve -- Steve Lord voice: +1-651-683-3511 Principal Engineer, Filesystem Software email: lord@xxxxxxx
- /archives/xfs/2002-01/msg02376.html (8,812 bytes)
- 23. Re: Shrink an XFS filesystem? (LVM) (score: 1)
- Author: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
- Date: 18 Jan 2002 13:19:15 -0600
- Hm, maybe. Convert from XFS to XFS, but make the loopback filesystem the size of your new, smaller filesystem. And before you map the loopback filesystem down to the block device, shrink the block de
- /archives/xfs/2002-01/msg02377.html (8,901 bytes)
- 24. Re: Shrink an XFS filesystem? (LVM) (score: 1)
- Author: Derek Glidden <dglidden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 18 Jan 2002 14:21:18 -0500
- I brought the same question up some time ago, and, after Steve Lord explained everything that would be involved in making an xfs_shrinkfs work, I pleaded that anyone with the skill and knowhow to do
- /archives/xfs/2002-01/msg02378.html (9,029 bytes)
- 25. Re: Shrink an XFS filesystem? (LVM) (score: 1)
- Author: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
- Date: 18 Jan 2002 14:24:26 -0600
- by Actually, this will work! (Except that convertfs seems to have trouble converting _to_ xfs, let alone shrinking, I'll have to look at this...) However, behold this example of using secret Russian
- /archives/xfs/2002-01/msg02379.html (11,776 bytes)
- 26. Re: Shrink an XFS filesystem? (LVM) (score: 1)
- Author: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 21:30:46 +0100
- Cool :-) Perhaps it could be even made crash safe with one of the existing generic user mode journaling layers, like the one from sleepycat db. -Andi
- /archives/xfs/2002-01/msg02380.html (9,140 bytes)
- 27. Re: Shrink an XFS filesystem? (LVM) (score: 1)
- Author: "Serguei Tzukanov" <tzukanov@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 23:30:24 +0300 (MSK)
- Yes, you are right, but not with current code (I don't have the time/proper linux machine to fix this now. Maybe next week). P.S. Some discussion about using of convertfs was on GNU Parted mailing l
- /archives/xfs/2002-01/msg02381.html (8,119 bytes)
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