From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: michael chang Subject: Re: what if I touch a reiser4 partition and ... Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:44:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2b973fa605082622442afd3040@mail.gmail.com> <4310106C.2060401@slaphack.com> <43109B47.9000706@slaphack.com> <4310A093.4070306@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <4310A093.4070306@namesys.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" Cc: David Masover , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Miguel_Ernesto_P=E9rez_Cabrera?= , reiserfs-list@namesys.com On 8/27/05, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: > Hello >=20 > 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 t= o > >>>grow the FS. So your correct course of action would probably have bee= n > >>>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. >=20 > Afaik, if any of disk partitions is mounted - re-partition-ing takes effe= ct only up on reboot. > Therefore, being able to grow mounted filesystem does not gain you too mu= ch. 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. --=20 ~Mike - Just my two cents - No man is an island, and no man is unable.