Online resizing of ext3 filesystems {shrink}

[Justin Conover]

On 1/9/06, Justin Conover <justin.conover at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 1/9/06, goemon at anime.net <goemon at anime.net> wrote:
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> > On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Andy Burns wrote:
> > > I don't know many real world servers where users end up using *less*
> > space,
> > > it's always *more* space, so growing is always more important than
> > shrinking
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> > kernel developers shouldn't let lack of imagination dictate what users
> > can't do. just because it's not useful to you doesn't mean it's not
> > important to someone else.
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> > things you learn from supporting larg customer bases. don't try to
> > second
> > guess and dictate what your customers need. give them flexibility to do
> > what they need.
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> 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.
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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
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