Re: [Xen-users] LVM and resize2fs

[Jonathan Tripathy <jonnyt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/10/10 20:19, Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Jonathan Tripathy<jonnyt@xxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>    
> > I was getting worried that by specifying 25G in both e2fsck and resize2fs
> > that may have caused problems..
> >      
> it is somewhat safer not to specify the size to resize2fs and let it
> simply use the device's size.
>
> otherwise, you expose yourself to slighly different interpretations of
> '25G'.  not too likely, but can you be sure that 24.78G is exactly the
> same number of bytes to LVM and resize2fs?
>
>    
No I can't be sure. That's what I was worried about. Do you think it's 
an issue? I guess I could not specify the size, however when I want to 
shrink a disk for a customer, then this becomes a bit trickier, as I 
have to resize2fs first and then lvresize. What would I do in this case?
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