I think the biggest point of contention is that with all the stuff going on in the background in btrfs, its difficult to be sure that the resize operation has completed. With grows, you don't have to worry. With shrinks, if you truncate the block device too soon, you will corrupt the filesystem.
2011/11/9 Ernst Sjöstrand <ern...@gmail.com>: > Gparted can do that, it just takes a very long time because it moves > everything back first. > > Regards > //Ernst > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 05:23, Jordan Windsor <jorda...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> I was wondering how I would go about growing a btrfs filesystem >> backwards, I don't have any space to store the files temporally, I'd >> need to do it in place. >> Thanks. >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in >> the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
