From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" Subject: Re: what if I touch a reiser4 partition and ... Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 21:19:15 +0400 Message-ID: <4310A093.4070306@namesys.com> References: <2b973fa605082622442afd3040@mail.gmail.com> <4310106C.2060401@slaphack.com> <43109B47.9000706@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: <43109B47.9000706@slaphack.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: David Masover Cc: michael chang , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Miguel_Ernesto?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_P=E9rez_Cabrera?= , reiserfs-list@namesys.com Hello David Masover wrote: > 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. Afaik, if any of disk partitions is mounted - re-partition-ing takes effect only up on reboot. Therefore, being able to grow mounted filesystem does not gain you too much. > >>>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! > > >