Bug 585221

Summary:	resize2fs should support shrinking filesystems
Product:	[Community] Virtualization Tools	Reporter:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component:	libguestfs	Assignee:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2010-04-23 13:23:43 UTC

Description of problem:

Currently you can only expand a filesystem to match an expanded
partition or LV.  It should be possible also to shrink a filesystem,
but you cannot do that with the current guestfs_resize2fs call
because you need to specify the reduced size.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

libguestfs 1.3.6

Original report:
http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/virt-resize-now-resizes-partition-content/#comment-1653

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2010-05-21 13:58:13 UTC

Patch posted upstream:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-May/msg00140.html