From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Masover Subject: Re: what if I touch a reiser4 partition and ... Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 11:56:39 -0500 Message-ID: <43109B47.9000706@slaphack.com> References: <2b973fa605082622442afd3040@mail.gmail.com> <4310106C.2060401@slaphack.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: michael chang Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Miguel_Ernesto_P=E9rez_Cabrera?= , reiserfs-list@namesys.com michael chang wrote: > On 8/27/05, David Masover 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!