Re: what if I touch a reiser4 partition and ...

[David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>]

michael chang wrote:
> On 8/27/05, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
> 
>>And last I checked, reiser4 doesn't have a resizer -- not even a way to
>>grow the FS.  So your correct course of action would probably have been
>>to back everything up, resize hdd5, mkfs, and then restore.  If you
> 
> 
> Yet. AFAIK, as soon as someone funds namesys a few millions or
> whatever, they'll write one.  After vanilla inclusion, and from what
> it seems, the online repacker.

Online repacker would make it possible to shrink the FS online.  But I
don't see why we can't *already* grow the FS, even offline.  You don't
need a repacker for that.

>>I know you've heard the lecture before, and it's little comfort now, but
>>backup is cheap.  Data recovery services are expensive.  And data loss
>>is unacceptible.
> 
> 
> I believe it was you, yes, that learnt this the hard way? ;-)

Almost.  I was very, very lucky.

Note to self:  cp, don't mv, and don't try to reattach an IDE drive to a
running system!