Jim Bailey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > LVM or EVMS are your friends here keep them all small to start off with > then grow them as you need to ext2/3 can be shrunk and expanded but > require the partition to be unmounted, XFS on the other hand can be > grown while still mounted, very cool but you can not shrink XFS > partions.
That's the best advice. I recently switched to Gentoo and put all my partitions on EVMS2 volumes (included root) and there is no more problem guessing correct sizes. (I'm on ReiserFS.) Sincerely, Gour -- Gour [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #278493 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list