XFS resizing & Win2k

[Shawn L Johnston]

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