Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:33:28
Message-Id: 200610201530.27676.alan@linuxholdings.co.za
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help by Daniel Barkalow
1 On Friday 20 October 2006 07:47, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
2 > The main issue is that ext3 doesn't support resizing. You need to
3 > create a new filesystem in order to get a different size.
4 > Furthermore, partitions are addressed from the beginning, which means
5 > that moving the beginning will completely change everything.
6
7 Um, not true. Ext3 does support resizing and can even increase the size
8 online without umounting the filesystem. To be fair, ext2online is not
9 declared fully completely 100% stable, but I've never seen or heard any
10 problems with it. And I use it often...
11
12 alan
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