On Thursday 16 February 2006 21:11, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:46:57 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > > If partition A > > > runs out of space while partition B has plenty, > > > > Then you made B too large, which is the main cause of the problem. > > Of course, but if your needs change, that's the situation you find > yourself in, as I did recently. > > > > you have to shrink B's > > > filesystem before you can add space to A. That's time consuming, > > > especially if B uses XFS. > > > > What's so special about XFS? The fact that there's no shrinker? > > Yes, so a matter of seconds turns into the time it takes to backup, > repartition and restore, which can take a while if the partition is tens > of GB and you have no space elsewhere for the backup. > > I've used complex partition layouts in the past and have found that, as > with most things, KISS is the best approach.
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