How can you shrink an XFS filesystem?

filesystems xfs

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?


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

XFS cannot be shrunk (ref).

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