Bug#574292: resize2fs still risky

2020-05-21 Thread Wilmer van der Gaast
Hello Theodore, Very interesting response, thank you! It all makes sense. And I realise it's hard to make everyone happy yes. On 21-05-2020 16:48, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > > In *general* things are mostly safe unless you need to do an > overlapping move of the inode table, in which case it is v

Bug#574292: resize2fs still risky

2020-05-21 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 10:04:54AM +0200, Wilmer van der Gaast wrote: > I just started a downsizing resize2fs operation over an SSH session > without screen and then realised how bad an idea that was.. > > Then found this bug as a confirmation. :-) > > It looks like resize2fs (still) doesn't inst

Bug#574292: resize2fs still risky

2020-05-21 Thread Wilmer van der Gaast
I just started a downsizing resize2fs operation over an SSH session without screen and then realised how bad an idea that was.. Then found this bug as a confirmation. :-) It looks like resize2fs (still) doesn't install any signal handlers so I've just disabled auto-suspend on my laptop and will h