Depends on the filesystem type: I use reiserfs and the tool is resize_reiserfs from sys-fs/reiserfsprogs. I have increased the size on partitions containing data with no problems at all, but have not tried to reduce a partition yet (you shrink the fs first, then the LVM partition).
BillK On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 17:31 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > William Kenworthy wrote: > > Did you grow the filesystem into the space you made with LVM ? > > Ooops! Help? > > > Yes, unless its a non-core partition and can be unmounted, and even then > > it would probably still be safer to do from a livecd. > > OK.. LiveCD it shall be :) > > > BillK > > > Thanks, > Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
