-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 01 December 2002 5:23 pm, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 07:52:40AM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote:
> | You can decrease an LV if you have first decreased the overlaying > | filesystem. > > Yeah, I guess that's what I meant. Is it safe to shrink an ext2/ext3 > filesystem? Supposedly a FAT32 partition can be safely shrunk after > defrag moves all the data to the front of the disk. I'm hoping > there's an counterpart for ext2 (possibly part of the 'e2fsadm' > program that ships with lvm). resize2fs will grow or shrink an ext2/ext3 partition (although it has to be unmounted) parted can shrink a FAT32 partition, with filesystem on it. It apparently does this without the need to run scandisk first. (I have done this, without running scandisk and it appeared to work). - -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE96koJuFHxcV2FFoIRAlP0AJ9dRZ3S//nc7wGVYHXfdlnzCPWrcQCdFr15 EsFmK45Q5YGqKvjdzI4peWc= =2G4B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
