<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Justin Conover</b> <<a href="mailto:justin.conover@gmail.com">justin.conover@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:goemon@anime.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">goemon@anime.net</a></b>
<<a href="mailto:goemon@anime.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">goemon@anime.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Andy Burns wrote:<br>> I don't know many real world servers where users end up using *less* space,<br>> it's always *more* space, so growing is always more important than shrinking<br><br>kernel developers shouldn't let lack of imagination dictate what users
<br>can't do. just because it's not useful to you doesn't mean it's not<br>important to someone else.<br><br>things you learn from supporting larg customer bases. don't try to second<br>guess and dictate what your customers need. give them flexibility to do
<br>what they need.</blockquote></span><div><br>
Yes, the reason this was all brought up was because a friend of
mine has a hosting provider and for whatever reason they were
thinking created a 120GB / on lvm, no SWAP no nothing left, so I
think he is going to walk them through booting knoppix and using parted
or some other tool to shrink it.</div></div></blockquote><div><br>
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Its not LVM, after i wrote that, it didn't make sense, they created 1 large / with just ext3, no lvm <br>
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