Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions
On Wednesday 17 August 2016 09:59:56 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:55:12AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 09:16:01 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> [...]
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> > > - Shrinking:
>
> [...]
>
> > > - Growing
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> [...]
>
> > And I sit here with egg on my face. :(
>
> Not necessarily. Perhaps gparted knows how to do the dump/restore
> thing, given enough spare disk space. That would be definitely
> a (slow, but feasible) solution!
>
> I was just recommending to look closely before putting one's
> work and sweat at risk :-)
>
> regards
> -- t
Even so, Tomas, I think I would try it on a throwaway filesystem first.
And absolutely not on a live system. But the OP was talking in terms of
terabytes, which can be a whole new game. Thats dirt few if any have
walked on. I sure have not.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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