Bob Proulx a écrit : > > There are many stories of this from people doing the same thing on the > net. It seems that the code for expanding the file system is used > often and optimized to run fast but that the code for shrinking it is > not used very often and therefore has severe inefficiencies. But if > you wait long enough, more than a week in my case, then it will finish > successfully.
Regardless of any optimization, shrinking a filesystem is much more difficult that expanding it. It requires to move all the used blocks which are allocated beyond the new size. Moving blocks on the same disk is a rather slow operation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53a6db85.8010...@plouf.fr.eu.org
