Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

[Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>]

Tanguy Ortolo wrote:
> Lars Wirzenius, 2011-12-16 15:38+0100:
> > resize2fs, at least, only supports online resizing to make the filesystem
> > larger, not smaller. It's not particularly useful for, say, the root
> > filesystem.
> 
> This is also true of Ext* with resize2fs, and probably most file
> systems. Online shrinking is a very rare feature.

Even when offline it is not univerial to have shrinking available.
For example xfs does not provide a way to shrink a filesystem either
online or offline.  A sorely missed feature in an otherwise excellent
filesystem.

Bob

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