[DRBD-user] how to shrink a DRBD partition?

[Florian Haas]

On Monday 10 December 2007 13:38:16 Amos Shapira wrote:
> I found about "drbdadm resize" but it doesn't seem to make any effect on
> drbd.

"drbdadm resize" should really be renamed "drbdadm enlarge" or "drbdadm 
extend"; it doesn't reduce.

Your recommended approach for shrinking a DRBD device is this:
1. drbdadm down <resource> (on both nodes)
2. Shrink filesystem on underlying volume (on one node)
3. Shrink LV's (on both nodes)
4. Re-create DRBD meta data, drbdadm create-md <resource> (both nodes)
5. drbdadm up <resource> (both nodes)
6. drbdadm -- --overwrite-data-of-peer primary <resource> (on node where you 
shrunk the file system)

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Florian

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