Resizing Reiser

[Brian Densmore]

Hmmm...

You shrank the reiser filesystem? You should be able to shrink
a filesystem and not affect the partition. Shrinking a filesystem
should not cause any overlap in partitions. The worst you should
be able to expect is unused partition space. It is only when you
create filesystems that are larger than a partition that you should
begin to expect cross partition corruption. In fact if you needed to
shrink the reiser filesystem, I would say it is absolutely necessary
to resize the reiser filesystem first. This should force a sync of the 
disk, but perhaps it didn't. I know this is all hind-sight, but I
would say it is important to force the disc to sync and to reboot the system
after resizing a filesystem and before resizing partitions, and also to 
sync and reboot after resizing partitions and before doing anything else.

Brian Densmore

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Hutchins 
> 
> 
> 
> I think that the problem is that reiser is a sort of virtual 
> filesystem within 
> the "physical" filesystem.  I haven't tried it to be sure, 
> but I've been told 
> that the correct method is to resize the partition on the 
> disk _first_ - even 
> by using fdisk to delete and re-define it - then use the 
> reiser-resize tool 
> to match the virtual filesystem to the partition.
> 
> I did it the other way - shrank the filesystem first, then 
> resized the 
> partition, and did not have good results.  I was also using 
> older versions of 
> the tools, which may have made a difference.
>