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· Lord Sauron <lordsauronthegreat@×××××.com>: |
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> On 10/20/06, Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za> wrote: |
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>> On Friday 20 October 2006 07:47, Daniel Barkalow wrote: |
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>> > The main issue is that ext3 doesn't support resizing. You need to |
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>> > create a new filesystem in order to get a different size. |
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>> > Furthermore, partitions are addressed from the beginning, which means |
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>> > that moving the beginning will completely change everything. |
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>> Um, not true. Ext3 does support resizing and can even increase the size |
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>> online without umounting the filesystem. To be fair, ext2online is not |
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>> declared fully completely 100% stable, but I've never seen or heard any |
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>> problems with it. And I use it often... |
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> Yah, you resize ext3 with the ext2resize command. |
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Yes. |
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> I'm just scared to |
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> use it because I don't know how. |
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Read the man page. The easiest usage (and I assume most common) is: |
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ext2resize $fs |
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BTW: One of the most valuable tips already given in this thread |
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was to use EVMS or LVM. With EVMS or LVM, you just don't have |
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problems like this. |
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Alexander Skwar |
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world like English did. Er, *as* English did... |
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