Hi,

I am running Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4 and am having difficulty shrinking a volume. I am a Windows admin so I know little about getting around in Linux. I found some info and tried this-

I booted the rescue CD and entered these commands:
>vgscan
>vgchange -a y VolGroup00
>vgmknodes
#e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
#resize2fs /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 39GB
resize2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
resize2fs: bad filesystem size - 39GB

It does not matter what size I plug in, always same error. The OS was built on a 250GB drive, I need to resize the OS down so I can use Clonezilla and put RH into a multi-boot system for developers. I read somewhere maybe the version of resize2fs needs to be updated? I really don't much about installing SW in Linux.

What is wrong?