Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

[Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>]

On Monday 11 June 2007, Randy Barlow wrote:
> Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> > Of course, there's no need to grow the
> > filesystem, but you won't have more space than before because file
> > systems don't usually adapt to partition size.
>
> I am confused as to what you mean here.  It is my experience that
> resizing a file system that has been dd'ed to a new, larger partition
> will cause it to take up that entire new partition (which is
> desirable). Are you saying this is not the case?

No, he's saying that you don't *have* to resize the fs, but then all 
that happens is you have a (say) 60GB fs on a 100GB partition, wasting 
40GB of disk space. He also say it would be nice to have an fs that 
dynamically resizes itself if it finds it's not using all of the 
partition, but that's not the usual way it works (if at all).

Hans-Werner's post is correct but also in convulted language with a 
triple negative. Your original understanding is correct.

alan

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Alan McKinnon
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