From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GbCVW-0004RX-OU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:47:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9L8j1uA000895; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:45:01 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9L8guiP003277 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:42:56 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C8A64843 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:42:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.57 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.57 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.029, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id maWNx6lANB+m for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:42:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B436964863 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:42:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GbCRB-0003Xp-C6 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:42:37 +0200 Received: from mue-88-130-123-194.dsl.tropolys.de ([88.130.123.194]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:42:37 +0200 Received: from listen by mue-88-130-123-194.dsl.tropolys.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:42:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Alexander Skwar Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Scary Paritioning - Need Help Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:44:05 +0200 Organization: =?UTF-8?B?LsK3Lg==?= Message-ID: <1327585.YOcJSY2zOf@m-id.message-center.info> References: <200610201530.27676.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mue-88-130-123-194.dsl.tropolys.de User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k9L8j1uc000895 X-Archives-Salt: 8146ca7f-73d7-4bf6-b785-5b9421b84eb6 X-Archives-Hash: a51130065d30951cc6ca1e4cb6f30366 =C2=B7 Lord Sauron : > On 10/20/06, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Friday 20 October 2006 07:47, Daniel Barkalow wrote: >> > The main issue is that ext3 doesn't support resizing. You need to >> > create a new filesystem in order to get a different size. >> > Furthermore, partitions are addressed from the beginning, which mean= s >> > that moving the beginning will completely change everything. >> >> Um, not true. Ext3 does support resizing and can even increase the siz= e >> online without umounting the filesystem. To be fair, ext2online is not >> declared fully completely 100% stable, but I've never seen or heard an= y >> problems with it. And I use it often... >=20 > Yah, you resize ext3 with the ext2resize command. Yes. > I'm just scared to=20 > use it because I don't know how. Read the man page. The easiest usage (and I assume most common) is: ext2resize $fs BTW: One of the most valuable tips already given in this thread was to use EVMS or LVM. With EVMS or LVM, you just don't have=20 problems like this. Alexander Skwar --=20 P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did... -- Larry Wall in <199705201832.LAA28393@wall.org> --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list