Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

[deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com>]

tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

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> 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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> [...]
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>> >  - Shrinking:
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>> >  - Growing
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>> And I sit here with egg on my face. :(
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> 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!
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> I was just recommending to look closely before putting one's
> work and sweat at risk :-)
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> regards

If someone does this with success please post a short how to somewhere, as I
gave up because there was no reliable information what is necessary to
actually do it without loosing data - ending up in backup anyway - gparted
was extra work.

It would really help if someone point to a good howto

thanks