On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 08:48, Adrian Head wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 07:22, Terje Kvernes wrote:
> > Matthew Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > XFS has xfs_growfs which works on mounted volumes. I *think*
> > > resierfs has something similar. ext2 has it as well.
> >
> >   Reiserfs has 'resize_reiserfs', which works well.  by the way,
> >   shrinking Reiserfs is not something you'd really want to do -- as it
> >   rebuilds the internal tree, which takes _time_.
>
> Expanding most filesystems is a lot easier than trying to shrink them. 
> There was an extensive thread on the XFS mailing list a couple of years
> ago.  It was quite informative.
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-xfs&m=99535721111725&w=2
>
> There is a utility that some people have used sucessfully to shrink
> volumes; not sure if it will work for you - its been years since I've had
> to worry about this.
> http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-parted/2002-January/thread.html

Finally - Actually found the web-page:
http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/

>
> Adrian


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