LVM support? On root? (Francisco Borges)

[Francisco Borges]

» On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 12:55AM +0100, Nicholas Thomas wrote:

> >> I thought you couldn't shrink ext3 filesystems, though I could be wrong.
>
> > That would be something nice to get clarified.
>
> AIUI, to resize an ext3 filesystem, you remove the journal, shrink it
> as an ext2 partition, then replace the journal.

Hum, I knew it was easy to migrate from ext2 -> ext3, but not that it
was so straight forward to revert back.

> I don't know if that works with LVM or not, and even if it does, I
> don't have a clue how to do it, mind! Hmm. Maybe I should break out my
> ancient 2.5GB Quantum Fireball EL, and give it a go? :)

I just googled for it and some links from RedHat came over. Both links I
found were about resizing ext3 partitions.

Either way, I'm still sticking with my reiserfs choice ;-)

Cheers,
-- 
Francisco Borges