It depends on the filesystem.  Some can shrink and some can't.  Also some can 
shrink only if there are no used blocks in the area that is going to be removed.

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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Ryan McCain
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 9:43 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Root filesystem


Is it possible to shrink a LVM fs, not just grow it?

>>> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:04 AM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Post
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
>>>> On 8/15/2008 at 12:58 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark
> Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> -snip-
>> Is there a way to trigger a script when a filesystem (FS) hits a certain
>> percentage full? (90%?)
> 
> Of course.  I have such a thing set up on my Slack/390 development systems 
> so that I know when to temporarily suspend rsynching from my "upstream" 
> source at slackware.com.
> 
>> If so, then one could develop a method to automatically issue the
>> required lvresize and ext2online commands to keep the FS within a
>> certain percentage range (70-90%?). Of course rules could be developed
>> to make this more sophisticated:
>> which FS are controlled, what % range per FS, limits of VG % free etc.
> 
> You're certainly willing to do that to yourself.  I would not want to do it, 
> nor make that available to others.  That sort of thing is very, very, 
> complicated, and I would want a human looking at that and making decisions, 
> not software.
> 
> 
> Mark Post
> 
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