Wojtek.Pilorz wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Theo Band wrote: > > [...] > >> To my understanding sometimes it is possible to resize live ext3 >> filesystems. (No experience myself). In that case you could simply do >> something like this: >> >> resize2fs /dev/VolGroup00/VarVol00 2G >> lvreduce -L2G /dev/VolGroup00/VarVol00 >> >> I would still prefer to do this when the disk is unmounted and checked >> (e2fsck -f /dev/VolGroup00/VarVol00). But in that case you of course get >> rid of the partition VarVol00 anyhow. >> >> Theo > > Last time I tried reducing ext3 was only possible after > umount and e2fsck -f; > > Enlarging ext3 was generally possible on mounted system, unless > you want to enlarge past some limit (depending on how fs was created); in that case > umount and e2fsck is also needed. > > Best regards, > > Wojtek > > Everything I have read said that reducing an LVM volume was dangerous because you have to reduce the file system first and that has issues of its own.. I would rather just migrate the data off the one volume to another then all I have to do is extend the volumes which works fairly easily..