Re: root low space

[Giacomo Mulas <gmulas@oa-cagliari.inaf.it>]

On Wed, 21 May 2014, Francesco Pietra wrote:

> Hi Robert:
> Thanks for the input. I was at older ideas that shrinking a volume is a
> dangerous move.

it still is, to some extent: if for whatever reason a resizing is aborted
midway (e.g.  a power outage, an unrelated kernel panic...) all the contents
of the filesystem being resized are lost.  Since these are hopefully
unlikely events, it's a remote possibility, but a catastrophic one. 
Do make sure to have up to date backups before resizing a filesystem
containing important data.  And restrain your dog from playing with the
power cord while resizing :)

Ciao
Giacomo

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