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Subject: Re: raw partition or LV for btrfs?
From: "Fajar A. Nugraha" <list@fajar.net>
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On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:09 PM, cwillu <cwillu@cwillu.com> wrote:
>>> If I understand correctly, if I don't use LVM, then such move and resize
>>> operations can't be done for an online filesystem and it has more risk.
>>
>> You can resize, add, and remove devices from btrfs online without the
>> need for LVM. IIRC LVM has finer granularity though, you can do
>> something like "move only the first 10GB now, I'll move the rest
>> later".
>
> You can certainly resize the filesystem itself, but without lvm I
> don't believe you can resize the underlying partition online.

I'm pretty sure you can do that with parted. At least, when your
version of parted is NOT 2.2.

-- 
Fajar