On 06/05/2014 11:04 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
Richard Hector wrote:
I prefer not to get in the situation where I have to shrink a filesystem
though - xfs doesn't support it anyway.
Agreed. Even better is to avoid it. Small ext{3,4} file systems
shrink acceptably well. But larger ext{3,4} file systems can take a
very long time to shrink. I once made the mistake of trying to shrink
a 600G filesystem. The operation was eventually successful. But it
took 10 days to complete! And once I started it there was no other
option than to let it complete.
Two questions:
1. What would you do if you need more space in /tmp and you know you
have some spare space in /home or else, but do not want to reinstall?
2. Wouldn't be nice if resizing routines/commands/programs/... show
calculated time they would need for such an operation, so a user could
decide whether to continue or cancel?
M.
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