Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:46:57 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> > If partition A >> > runs out of space while partition B has plenty, >> >> Then you made B too large, which is the main cause of the problem. > > Of course, but if your needs change, that's the situation you find > yourself in, as I did recently.
Yes, this might happen. How often does it, though? >> > you have to shrink B's >> > filesystem before you can add space to A. That's time consuming, >> > especially if B uses XFS. >> >> What's so special about XFS? The fact that there's no shrinker? > > Yes, so a matter of seconds turns into the time it takes to backup, Shrinking is never a matter of seconds :) Not with reiserfs and especially not with ext2/ext3. But with those filesystems, shrinking is at least possible. > I've used complex partition layouts in the past and have found that, as > with most things, KISS is the best approach. Yep. Alexander Skwar -- It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list