[TriLUG] cool underexposed Linux toys - LVM

[Ron Joffe]

On Thursday 24 July 2003 10:57 am, Magnus wrote:
> On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 10:18  AM, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> > AFAIK, XFS specifically states that shrinking is not supported,
> > so keep that in mind.  Don't know about resier or JFS.  Anyone
> > else know for sure?
>
> Per the HOWTO, you can shrink reiserfs if you unmount it first.
>
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/x638.html

Shrink seems to work just fine on my SuSE LVM with Reiser, I've even done it 
without unmounting (although holding my breath while the operation went 
through)

Ron