On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:22:00PM +0800, Andy Sy wrote: > Hopefully something that will not stay true for too long. I > wonder if resize_reiserfs is still branded as dangerous > today. >
I can grow ReiserFS volumes easily, even online while the filesystem is mounted, with no ill effects or even a warning message. It's the part where I try to shrink a logical volume where ReiserFS starts ringing all the alarm bells. > ...or live CD. Unmounting and resizing logical volumes would still > be preferable to nuking a partition in order to resize. > But if you were to start with a volume that takes up all of your storage space, you'll have to boot this way every time you need more space for your other filesystems, and that strikes me as an unacceptable way of doing business for an enterprise mission critical system. > It all hinges on whether it is already possible to safely shrink a > filesystem today. It isn't. Standard practice for LVM these days, even on proprietary Unix variants like AIX or Solaris, is to allocate as little space as you can get away with in the beginning for your volumes and then grow them in measured increments as more space is required for each volume. Not enough space, add more physical volumes. -- El sueño de la Razon Produce Monstruos... http://stormwyrm.blogspot.com/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.q-linux.com (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
