On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:04:03 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> > XFS allows growing a mounted filesystem, but it has no option to
> > shrink a filesystem, mounted or otherwise.  

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

It's quite a limitation. I don't normally need to shrink a filesystem,
since I use LVM to only make them as large as they need to be, but it's
bitten me a couple of times. Maybe it's time to see how ext4 does with
large files.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.

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