ยท Lord Sauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On 10/20/06, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Friday 20 October 2006 07:47, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
>> > The main issue is that ext3 doesn't support resizing. You need to
>> > create a new filesystem in order to get a different size.
>> > Furthermore, partitions are addressed from the beginning, which means
>> > that moving the beginning will completely change everything.
>>
>> Um, not true. Ext3 does support resizing and can even increase the size
>> online without umounting the filesystem. To be fair, ext2online is not
>> declared fully completely 100% stable, but I've never seen or heard any
>> problems with it. And I use it often...
>
> Yah, you resize ext3 with the ext2resize command.
Yes.
> I'm just scared to
> use it because I don't know how.
Read the man page. The easiest usage (and I assume most common) is:
ext2resize $fs
BTW: One of the most valuable tips already given in this thread
was to use EVMS or LVM. With EVMS or LVM, you just don't have
problems like this.
Alexander Skwar
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