shrinking encrypted LVM's

[Aldo Foot]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:07 AM, solarflow99<solarflow99 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> thats why i was using resize2fs.  I can't even get the fs down in the first
> place, before I can lvreduce or lvresize.  The GUI tool doesn't warn you
> either, I have a bugzilla on that one too.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517759
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You have to run fsck on the target before changing the size.

Don't forget to also pay close attention to the number of Total PE vs Free PE.

Do an eSearch on "resizing lvms", you should come up with something.

~af