COBOL MOVE was not intuitive. Should have been PROPOGATE or COPY, COPY was
already taken I guess.

On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 1:55 PM Grant Taylor <
0000023065957af1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:

> On 7/30/23 7:58 PM, Andrew Rowley wrote:
> > They do dynamicaly expand. It's not growing that's the problem though,
> > it's shrinking - releasing space so that it can be used by another user.
>
> I feel like shrinking is a thing for many file systems.  The utility to
> shrink may not be included with the OS and need to be installed or even
> come from a 3rd party.
>
> Not all file systems can be expanded much less shrunk while mounted.
> Many of the ones that I've worked with need to be unmounted to do such
> actions.
>
> Usually, such actions also require the support of some sort of resizable
> container to put the file system in.  This is often Logical Volume
> Manager on Linux (across platforms).
>
>
>
> Grant. . . .
>
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