XFS resizing & Win2k

[Net Llama!]

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 ??


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