[CentOS] Re: Extending LVM2 logical volumes [ was: Demonizing ... ]

Collins Richey

crichey at gmail.com
Wed Jul 27 01:51:10 UTC 2005


On 5/28/05, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 22:37 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
> > On 5/28/05, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 15:28 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
> > > > So, has anyone found an equivalent (even multiple commands that I
> > > > could put in a script) for the e2fsadm utility to extend a logical
> > > > volume? Anyone who has experience with ext2online?
> > >
> > > The LVM How-To covers it fairly well. Once the LV has been enlarged just
> > > run ext2online against the filesystem to expand it to take up all space
> > > in the LV, no rebooting required.
> > >
> >
> > Thanks, I will check it out.
> >
> There is no way to current shrink online volumes right now ... it was
> broken, and disabled by RH.  This will be fixed when update 1 is
> released.
> 

OK, Update 1 has come and gone. Does anyone know if this is now fixed,
i.e. you can shrink an LVM2 logical volume?

-- 
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write 
      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not 
      smart enough to debug it.
             -Brian Kernighan



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