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On 11/19/2015 11:02 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am 19.11.2015 um 15:09 schrieb Konstantin Tokarev:
>> I can confirm that shrinking UBIFS volume corrupts it.
>
> There are no UBIFS volumes.
> If you shrink a UBI volume, you kill UBIFS for sure.
> It is like shrinking a HDD partition without resizing ext4 before.
>
> Maybe we can do a resizeubifs tool at some point.
> I'm currently checking the source what we need for a online-shrink...

Interesting idea. What about a ubifs tool with a subcommand named as
resize? Then we can add more subcommands for ubifs. Anyway, waiting for 
your
patch. :)

Thanx
Yang

>
> Thanks,
> //richard
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