XFS resizing & Win2k

[Shawn L Johnston]

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.


Shawn