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From: Wolfgang Weisselberg <weissel@netcologne.de>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Backup costs (was: LVM reimplementationre)
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Hi, James!

James Hawtin (oolon@ankh.org) wrote 45 lines:

> The reasons resize scares me, is all in needs is someone to define MB or
> GB differently and your up S..T creek, is the block could 1k or 512
> bytes... Was that M option MiB or MB most people say MB whent hey mean
> MiB. Was there and "overhead" of a few blocks magically required when i
> asked for a 1GiB filesystem... etc.

If you are using ext2 or ext3, you might want to look at
e2fsadm...

-Wolfgang