On Sunday 07 January 2007 04:00, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > That is correct. You cannot make XFS shrink, only grow. However, this > > does not prevent you from using it on LVM. You just can't make the > > logical volumes any smaller, only larger. Out of curiousity, why XFS? > > Why not ext3? > > And why ext3? I would never recommend it, since it eats you 10% of the > partition. I don't remember the exact number, but it's around that. So > if you have partition of 10GB, if you format the partition with > reiserfs, JFS, XFS, you have 10GB. With ext3 you have 9GB. If you don't want ext3, reiserfs is the only alternative if you want to be able to shrink. JFS and XFS cannot shrink, only grow. -- Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> <xmpp:wjl@icecavern.net> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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