Bug#613796: partman-partitioning: Put swap at begin of disk instead of at end

[Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
> 256mb for swap is very rare nowadays.  yes, it makes little

Is it? I thought it was the default. More doesn't make sense.

>> Not true, ext supports online resize.
>
> While ext*fs and xfs supports online resizing, one needs
> to resize partitions too, and that one isn't that easy,
> you need to reboot for the kernel to recognize new size
> of a partition which is in use (it is possible to resize
> only unused partition freely using BLKPG ioctl, but root
> fs is always mounted).

That seems silly.

> So at least you will reboot, and when you do so, it may
> be just safer to go for offline resize (using rescue/install
> media), verifying at the same time that you do have an
> alternative way to boot up the system if something goes
> wrong.

Olaf


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Olaf