Net Llama! wrote:
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.
errrr...vxfs ??
Sorry, Veritas Filesystem.
Shawn
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