Al Sparks spake the following on 5/3/2007 6:39 PM: > --- Matt Hyclak <hyclak at math.ohiou.edu> wrote: > >> On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:06:31PM -0700, Al Sparks enlightened us: >>>> Did you resize the filesystem, too? >>>> >>>> Matt >>> Nope. How do you do that? >> resize2fs would be a good guess. Usually this is done *before* you shrink >> the disk out from underneath it. If anything was in those sectors you >> removed from the LV, you might be out of luck. >> >> Matt > > Well, I was able to get my server back up. > > First, I had to boot it up on a recovery CD (standard CentOS) and > comment out the bad volume it wanted to mount in /etc/fstab. > > When the server came back up, I tried using resize2fs to resize. The > resize2fs would not let me resize until I manually ran fsck because > the file system and logical volume block counts wouldn't match (been > there, done that, no joy). So I increased the logical volume back to > where it was to make them match, ran fsck again, and everything > checked out. I then was able to use resize2fs to decrease the file > system size, and then run lvreduce to decrease the volume size. > > However, because neither application didn't seem to allow me to use > block size parameters, I used units of Megabytes and would end up > within a few blocks of each other. I then would estimate how much > more units of +/- MB I needed to get things in sync. > > Kind of a pain. Anyway, I appreciate the help. Nice to have these > tools available to use. > === Al If it worked for you then you could resize2fs to "smaller" than you need, resize the LV, and resize2fs with no size parameters I believe will resize to all available space in the filesystem. Yes, it is one extra step, but it should work. I haven't used resize2fs for so long, I did't think it worked on ext3. I guess past pains don't always carry to the future. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!