On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 20:17 -0500, Ryan Lynch wrote:
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 20:13, Matthew Saltzman
<mjs(a)clemson.edu> wrote:
> Well, it means I can have separate filesystems for things that I don't
> want overwritten if I reinstall (/home, /usr/local, /opt, /var/www,
> etc.) and I can dynamically resize them if they get unbalanced. That's
> pretty useful.
Out of curiousity, what filesystem do you use to get dynamic shrinking?
Sorry if I wasn't clear--by "dynamic" I didn't mean "online",
though
AFAICT from reading docs, ext filesystems can be resized online.
But I can shrink an ext filesystem and the LV that contains it, then
expand a different LV and the fielsystem on it, without having to move
the partitions so that the space is contiguous. Way more convenient
than the alternative.
-Ryan
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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