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

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 02:38:11PM +0000, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 02:13:29PM +0100, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
>> > Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> writes:
>> > 
>> > > life's too short to spend time booting in single-user mode and
>> > > resizing LVs.
>> > 
>> > That's probably why we now have online resizing of LVs and filesystems
>> 
>> resize2fs, at least, only supports online resizing to make the filesystem
>> larger, not smaller. It's not particularly useful for, say, the root
>> filesystem.
>
> FYI, the resize2fs proram does support shrinking off-line shrinking of
> ext3 file systems.  It doesn't currently support off-line resizing of
> ext4 file systems (just on-line growth), but that's something I
> consider a bug that I just haven't had the time to get around to fix.
>
> Regards,
>
> 						- Ted

It could also be nice to be able to shrink the root filesystem by
alowing it to be mounted read-only and locking all pages of resize2fs
into memory. Just a thought.

MfG
        Goswin