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 12:25:16 -0500 Message-ID: <4310A1FC.5070105@slaphack.com> References: <2b973fa605082622442afd3040@mail.gmail.com> <4310106C.2060401@slaphack.com> <43109B47.9000706@slaphack.com> <4310A093.4070306@namesys.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: <4310A093.4070306@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" Cc: michael chang , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Miguel_Ernesto?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_P=E9rez_Cabrera?= , reiserfs-list@namesys.com Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: > 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. There are things like LVM, which allow a partition to be extended online. Also, not many install/rescue disks have support for Reiser4 yet, so it would be helpful if one could: - boot random rescue disk - resize partition - boot main Linux installation - extend filesystem Anyway, how hard could it be?