Apparently, though unproven, at 16:41 on Friday 19 November 2010, Neil 
Bothwick did opine thusly:

> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:07:54 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Yes, you can grow a mounted filesystem, just not shrink it. Most decent
> > Unix filesystems support this, I think xfs is the only one in common
> > use that doesn't.
> 
> XFS allows growing a mounted filesystem, but it has no option to shrink a
> filesystem, mounted or otherwise.

Ah, ok.

xfs isn't something I use and I had a niggling thought I might have got the 
details wrong. Thanks for that.


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