Can the filesystems on logical volumes be shrunk with on-line resizing in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

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Issue

  • We want to reduce the size of fs on LVM volumes online. Is this supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
root@s:/ # resize2fs /dev/mapper/vgapp-test 1G 
resize2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) 
Filesystem at /dev/mapper/vgapp-test is mounted on /test; on-line resizing required 
On-line shrinking from 524288 to 262144 not supported.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5, 6

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