On Friday 01 December 2006 7:19 am, Jan Engelhardt 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>. > > > >Most filesystems, including Ext3, have to be unmounted before resizing. > > "Most" huh? resize2fs's manual page says it can do it online too, and > xfs can _only_ do it online. I am sure jfs also has some way, so "most" > ist mostly inaccurate ;-)
Ah, I stand corrected. Reiserfs *used* to be the only Linux fs capable of online resizing. ext3 got it in 2.6.10. Apparently, this misconception is popular. I remember reading it recently. -- James Oakley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
