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I have an xfs filesystem that has some free space. Can I shrink it? I know of xfs_growfs. And there is resize2fs and resize_reiserfs.

Side question: is xfs not a good filesystem choice for bulk longterm file storage?

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You can make a backup, and then create a new smaller file system and restore.

XFS cannot be shrunk (ref).

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+1 - there were some patches adding support for shrinking a filesystem, but they seem to have stalled now – James Dec 8 '09 at 9:23
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