Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

2016-08-17 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:55:12AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Wednesday 17 August 2016 09:16:01 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > >> > - Shrinking: > [...] >> > - Growing > [...] > >> And I sit here with

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

2016-08-17 Thread deloptes
Brian wrote: > Is this advice based on experience? haha - this makes me smile. One should never forget this list is public and whole world can read it. Based on experience from last year (debian jessie) it is not possible to shrink. Extending works very good and straight forward. regards

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

2016-08-17 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:38:50AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > This last link is from 2008. It does seem to be difficult, and only > accomplishable by a full dump, repartition and recovery. The latter > would not be a problem if a regular backup is being done. But I've no > knowldge about how

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

2016-08-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 10:00:50AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] > ZFS is a file system originating with Sun in 2005. I don't know anyone > who uses it. Largely considered experimental/unfinished outside of > Solaris. No. ZFS is in some

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

2016-08-17 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 10:27:07AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2016 10:00:50 Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:53:36AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 09:12:40 Brian wrote: > > You would advise using gparted to shrink an XFS

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

2016-08-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 17 August 2016 10:00:50 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:53:36AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 09:12:40 Brian wrote: > > > You would advise using gparted to shrink an XFS partition in spite > > > of > > > > > >

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

2016-08-17 Thread Brian
On Wed 17 Aug 2016 at 09:53:36 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 09:12:40 Brian wrote: > > > On Wed 17 Aug 2016 at 08:54:47 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 03:43:36 ML mail wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > > > > > On my Debian 8 machine I have two

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

2016-08-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 17 August 2016 09:59:56 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:55:12AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 09:16:01 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > > - Shrinking: > > [...] > > > > - Growing > > [...] > > > And I sit here with egg on my

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

2016-08-17 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 17/08/2016 à 15:31, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 03:28:57PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 17/08/2016 à 15:16, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : Gparted will grow (or shrink) the partition. Not the file system. AFAIK, Gparted does resize the filesystem too. On its

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

2016-08-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:55:12AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 09:16:01 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > - Shrinking: [...] > > - Growing [...] > And I sit here with egg on my face. :( Not necessarily. Perhaps

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

2016-08-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:53:36AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 09:12:40 Brian wrote: > > You would advise using gparted to shrink an XFS partition in spite of > > > > http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_Is_there_a_way_to_make_a_XFS_files > >ystem_larger_or_smaller.3F

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

2016-08-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 17 August 2016 09:16:01 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 08:54:47AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 03:43:36 ML mail wrote: > > > Hello > > > > > > On my Debian 8 machine I have two XFS data partitions on my disk: > > > > > > - /dev/sdb1 of

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

2016-08-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 17 August 2016 09:12:40 Brian wrote: > On Wed 17 Aug 2016 at 08:54:47 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 03:43:36 ML mail wrote: > > > Hello > > > > > > On my Debian 8 machine I have two XFS data partitions on my disk: > > > > > > - /dev/sdb1 of 4TB > > > -

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

2016-08-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 17 August 2016 04:05:03 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 05:49:39PM +1000, Igor Cicimov wrote: > > On 17 Aug 2016 5:43 pm, "ML mail" wrote: > > > Hello > > > > > > On my Debian 8 machine I have two XFS data partitions on my disk: > > > > Afaik

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

2016-08-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 03:28:57PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 17/08/2016 à 15:16, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > > >Gparted will grow (or shrink) the partition. Not the file system. > > AFAIK, Gparted does resize the filesystem too. On its

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

2016-08-17 Thread Brian
On Wed 17 Aug 2016 at 08:54:47 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 03:43:36 ML mail wrote: > > > Hello > > > > On my Debian 8 machine I have two XFS data partitions on my disk: > > > > - /dev/sdb1 of 4TB > > - /dev/sdb2 of 9TB > > > > Now I would like to decrease the first

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

2016-08-17 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 17/08/2016 à 15:16, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : Gparted will grow (or shrink) the partition. Not the file system. AFAIK, Gparted does resize the filesystem too.

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

2016-08-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 08:54:47AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 03:43:36 ML mail wrote: > > > Hello > > > > On my Debian 8 machine I have two XFS data partitions on my disk: > > > > - /dev/sdb1 of 4TB > > - /dev/sdb2 of

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

2016-08-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 17 August 2016 03:49:39 Igor Cicimov wrote: > On 17 Aug 2016 5:43 pm, "ML mail" wrote: > > Hello > > > > On my Debian 8 machine I have two XFS data partitions on my disk: > > Afaik you cant shrink xfs file systems. > Is there a specific reason for that? > > -

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

2016-08-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 17 August 2016 03:43:36 ML mail wrote: > Hello > > On my Debian 8 machine I have two XFS data partitions on my disk: > > - /dev/sdb1 of 4TB > - /dev/sdb2 of 9TB > > Now I would like to decrease the first partition of 1TB in order to > increase the second partition by that very same

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

2016-08-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 05:49:39PM +1000, Igor Cicimov wrote: > On 17 Aug 2016 5:43 pm, "ML mail" wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > On my Debian 8 machine I have two XFS data partitions on my disk: > > > > Afaik you cant shrink xfs

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

2016-08-17 Thread Igor Cicimov
On 17 Aug 2016 5:43 pm, "ML mail" wrote: > > Hello > > On my Debian 8 machine I have two XFS data partitions on my disk: > Afaik you cant shrink xfs file systems. > - /dev/sdb1 of 4TB > - /dev/sdb2 of 9TB > > Now I would like to decrease the first partition of 1TB in order