From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Masover Subject: Re: Resize of a reiser4 filesystem? Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 12:13:45 -0500 Message-ID: <42DA91C9.40205@slaphack.com> References: <42DA6EBE.7020100@mid.alexander.skwar.name> <42DA780D.1070101@mid.alexander.skwar.name> <42DA82F4.6080102@mid.alexander.skwar.name> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <42DA82F4.6080102@mid.alexander.skwar.name> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Alexander Skwar wrote: [...] > Has resizefs.reiser4 been removed from 1.0.4? I think that resizefs.reiser4, even when it was in 1.0.3, was a stub. I don't think it even grew the FS. As far as shrinking goes, forget it. Shrinking will need a repacker, and Namesys wants to do an online repacker, which is great. They want to be paid to do it, which is not great, because no one's currently paying them. I offered to write one, but of course, this is one of the things that Hans would rather I not write so that he can have someone pay Namesys to write. So, sometime after all the getting-into-the-vanilla-kernel fluff is done, we may get a resizefs.reiser4 that resizes online, growing or shrinking. Maybe it'll even be able to do that from both ends, but I hardly dare hope. For now, your best bet is to make sure you can do a full backup of anything you put on a Reiser4 filesystem, and do that backup with tar. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.9.0/50 - Release Date: 7/16/2005