-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert Smits wrote: > On Thursday 30 November 2006 12:57, James Oakley wrote: >> On Thursday 30 November 2006 3:24 pm, Robert Smits wrote: >>> The only problem I have with reiserfs is that suse's partition manager >>> doesn't seem to be able to resize a reiserfs partition, which is why I >>> installed with ext3 when I added Suse 10.1 >> >> Reiserfs can be resized without even unmounting. If you want to grow a >> Reiserfs filesystem, you simply increase the size of the underlying >> volume/partition/whatever, then run resize_reiserfs <device>. > > Didn't do it for me. I tried to get the partition manager in Yast to reduce > the size of the partition, it wouldn't do it, and then found a number of > articles in user groups telling me that others had the same problem and that > it couldn't be done because the tools weren't available in 10.1. The problem > didn't exist with ext3 partitions.
No, it's a bug/limitation in the yast partition module. The tools are there, I've done it numerous times since quite a number of SUSE versions. Actually, you can't do that with ext3 (not while the partition is mounted). cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFb3c8r3NMWliFcXcRAhuEAKCUl8UkddyK70LNyp2OUFbw4z3VsACaAh7i 9nfoZebox8YdW9q5nPZwwNM= =UDZn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
