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Apparently, though unproven, at 12:49 on Friday 19 November 2010, Marius |
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Vaitiekunas did opine thusly: |
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> Hi, |
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> One question about ext4. Is it possible to resize partition without |
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> unmounting it like on reiserfs filesystem? |
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Yes, you can grow a mounted filesystem, just not shrink it. Most decent Unix |
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filesystems support this, I think xfs is the only one in common use that |
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doesn't. |
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> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Alan McKinnon |
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<alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>wrote: |
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> > Apparently, though unproven, at 03:44 on Friday 19 November 2010, Walter |
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> > Dnes |
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> > did opine thusly: |
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> > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:20:52PM -0600, Dale wrote |
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> > > > This is mine and it worked when I rebooted a bit ago. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > LABEL=boot /boot ext2 noatime 1 2 |
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> > > > LABEL=root / reiserfs defaults 0 1 |
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> > > > LABEL=swap none swap sw 0 0 |
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> > > > LABEL=portage /usr/portage ext3 defaults 0 1 |
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> > > > LABEL=home /home reiserfs defaults 1 1 |
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> > > > LABEL=data /data reiserfs defaults 0 1 |
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> > > > I use a variety of file systems don't I? lol I hope that helps. |
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> > > > |
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> > > I have my own weird setup that optimizes disk usage, without LVM. It |
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> > > consists of a 256 *MEGA*byte / partition (ext2fs), some swap, and the |
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> > > rest of the drive is one big reiserfs3 partition mounted as /home. |
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> > > /opt, /var, /usr/, and /tmp physically reside on the big /home |
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> > > partition, but are bindmounted into the / partition. |
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> > > |
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> > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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> > > |
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> > > /dev/sda1 1 121601 976760001 5 Extended |
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> > > /dev/sda5 1 33 265009+ 83 Linux |
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> > > /dev/sda6 34 1209 9446188+ 82 Linux swap / |
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> > > Solaris /dev/sda7 1210 121601 967048708+ 83 Linux |
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> > > |
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> > > /dev/sda5 / ext2 noatime,nodiratime,async |
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> > > 0 1 /dev/sda7 /home reiserfs |
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> > > noatime,nodiratime,async,notail 0 1 /home/bindmounts/opt /opt |
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> > |
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> > auto |
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> > |
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> > > bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/var /var |
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> > > |
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> > > auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/usr |
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> > > /usr |
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> > > |
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> > > auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/tmp |
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> > > |
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> > > /tmp auto bind 0 0 /dev/sda6 |
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> > > |
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> > > none swap sw 0 0 |
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> > Let me optimize that for you a little bit more: |
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> > A single 1T reiser3 partition mounted at / |
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> > This will optimize away the small performance loss introduced by that |
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> > (empty) |
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> > / on ext2 |
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> > Seriously dude, this looks like a dumb scheme that gives you warm and |
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> > fuzzies |
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> > but doesn't actually accomplish anything except increased complexity. |
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> > Feel free to publish verifiable metrics to back up your case. |
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> > -- |
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> > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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