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

[michael chang <thenewme91@gmail.com>]

On 8/27/05, Vladimir V. Saveliev <vs@namesys.com> wrote:
> Hello
> 
> David Masover wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> 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.

So what if I have to resize my partition offline?  I'd be willing to
accept that (as a consumer), provided that there's a way to make
static binaries of said resizer and fit them on a floppy.  (I'd, of
course, boot Linux via another floppy, or on a disk image on a FAT
partition or something...)  Similar to the NTFS resize tools.

I'd even settle for that at the moment.  I can't switch to Reiser4
until I have some form of resizing or repacking, even if offline.

I've found online resizing and repacking to be a pain; it's usually
much safer to do it offline anyways.  Regardless of whether the tools
allow otherwise.

-- 
~Mike
 - Just my two cents
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