Ted Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> writes: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 02:38:11PM +0000, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 02:13:29PM +0100, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: >> > Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> writes: >> > >> > > life's too short to spend time booting in single-user mode and >> > > resizing LVs. >> > >> > That's probably why we now have online resizing of LVs and filesystems >> >> resize2fs, at least, only supports online resizing to make the filesystem >> larger, not smaller. It's not particularly useful for, say, the root >> filesystem. > > FYI, the resize2fs proram does support shrinking off-line shrinking of > ext3 file systems. It doesn't currently support off-line resizing of > ext4 file systems (just on-line growth), but that's something I > consider a bug that I just haven't had the time to get around to fix. > > Regards, > > - Ted
It could also be nice to be able to shrink the root filesystem by alowing it to be mounted read-only and locking all pages of resize2fs into memory. Just a thought. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87fwfd9jai.fsf@frosties.localnet