Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning
- To: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
- Cc: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning
- From: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:28:37 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 87fwfd9jai.fsf@frosties.localnet>
- In-reply-to: <20111227212937.GB10171@thunk.org> (Ted Ts'o's message of "Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:29:37 -0500")
- References: <20111215234959.GA6782@leaf> <87vcpg4vm4.fsf@frosties.localnet> <20111216115249.GA16004@reptile.pseudorandom.co.uk> <8762hgpsli.fsf@debian.org> <20111216143811.GA32182@havelock.liw.fi> <20111227212937.GB10171@thunk.org>
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
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