On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 04:35:03PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > > But it seems ext3 has to be unmounted to increase and decrease in size > right? > That would mean downtime for server. > There is currently an experimental online resizing patch for ext3. I am not sure if it is already in the kernel, but it is out there. > ReiserFS seems to be only file system from > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/extendlv.html > > that can be extended and shrunk while the file systems are mounted and > are online without disrupting the Services that the Server offers. > > I wonder how the shrinking takes place. > If there are possiblilites for loss of data and if it will give any > warning before it happens and so on? > Not sure about resier, but XFS does support online growing of the filesystem. It does not support shrinking the file system (online or offline). Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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