Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Well, this can't be applied on our scenario: We've got ONE big DRBD-Volume spanning the whole Disk except root and onto the drbd we've got LVM. Now we found out, that we need to transfer /tmp from drbd to local partitions, so we need to shrink the drbd-volume, to get space free for the additional partition. So our problem is, that we NEED to resize(shrink) drbd.... > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Dominik Klein [mailto:dk at in-telegence.net] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. Februar 2008 10:02 > An: drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > Betreff: Re: [DRBD-user] Can i trust "resize"? > > This was posted to the list earlier: > > 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) > > Rustedt, Florian wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > We need to reduce an existing drbd-drive. Now we now, that > there's a > > "mystical" resize function, but we're anxious to use it, > because this > > system is very important. > > > > What are the caveats? > > Regards > Dominik > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user >