Apparently, though unproven, at 12:49 on Friday 19 November 2010, Marius Vaitiekunas did opine thusly:
> Hi, > One question about ext4. Is it possible to resize partition without > unmounting it like on reiserfs filesystem? Yes, you can grow a mounted filesystem, just not shrink it. Most decent Unix filesystems support this, I think xfs is the only one in common use that doesn't. > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 03:44 on Friday 19 November 2010, Walter > > Dnes > > > > did opine thusly: > > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:20:52PM -0600, Dale wrote > > > > > > > This is mine and it worked when I rebooted a bit ago. > > > > > > > > LABEL=boot /boot ext2 noatime 1 2 > > > > LABEL=root / reiserfs defaults 0 1 > > > > LABEL=swap none swap sw 0 0 > > > > LABEL=portage /usr/portage ext3 defaults 0 1 > > > > LABEL=home /home reiserfs defaults 1 1 > > > > LABEL=data /data reiserfs defaults 0 1 > > > > > > > > I use a variety of file systems don't I? lol I hope that helps. > > > > > > > I have my own weird setup that optimizes disk usage, without LVM. It > > > > > > consists of a 256 *MEGA*byte / partition (ext2fs), some swap, and the > > > rest of the drive is one big reiserfs3 partition mounted as /home. > > > /opt, /var, /usr/, and /tmp physically reside on the big /home > > > partition, but are bindmounted into the / partition. > > > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > > > > > /dev/sda1 1 121601 976760001 5 Extended > > > /dev/sda5 1 33 265009+ 83 Linux > > > /dev/sda6 34 1209 9446188+ 82 Linux swap / > > > Solaris /dev/sda7 1210 121601 967048708+ 83 Linux > > > > > > /dev/sda5 / ext2 noatime,nodiratime,async > > > 0 1 /dev/sda7 /home reiserfs > > > noatime,nodiratime,async,notail 0 1 /home/bindmounts/opt /opt > > > > auto > > > > > bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/var /var > > > > > > auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/usr > > > /usr > > > > > > auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/tmp > > > > > > /tmp auto bind 0 0 /dev/sda6 > > > > > > none swap sw 0 0 > > > > Let me optimize that for you a little bit more: > > > > A single 1T reiser3 partition mounted at / > > > > This will optimize away the small performance loss introduced by that > > (empty) > > / on ext2 > > > > Seriously dude, this looks like a dumb scheme that gives you warm and > > fuzzies > > but doesn't actually accomplish anything except increased complexity. > > > > Feel free to publish verifiable metrics to back up your case. > > > > > > -- > > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
