On Thu, 29 May 2003, Shawn L Johnston wrote: > Andrew Mathews wrote: > > > > Nope. It's a one way street, as is LVM. AFAIK, no filesystem supports > > shrinking, at least I haven't found a way with AIX, Solaris, IRIX, or > > any others. The easiest way is to xfsdump the mountpoint, drop it and > > recreate it with the size required, and xfsrestore the data. You can do > > this with the installer iso by entering rescue mode, mounting /dev/hda3 > > as a temporary mountpoint and chrooting to the mountpoint. A tape drive > > would be handy for this as you won't be able to mount anything via nfs > > since networking won't be available. You'll also need to do this after > > installing Windows to be able to rerun lilo, otherwise Win will be the > > only thing that's bootable. Also see: > > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#resizexfspartition > > > > I believe you can shrink both reiser and vxfs filesystems.
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