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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HxlRU-0006e5-An for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:04:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5BF16Fm027911; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:01:06 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5BEp9vB012430 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:51:10 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id E30F483421 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:02:12 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id KOJdVoFnagF2 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:02:05 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C55383423 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:02:05 +0200 (SAST) Received: from nazgul.sybase.co.za ([192.168.2.68]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:52:53 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:54:17 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200706081805.00549.alexey.kv@gmail.com> <20070611105811.02576348.hilse@web.de> <466D67C3.1090303@electronsweatshop.com> In-Reply-To: <466D67C3.1090303@electronsweatshop.com> 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706111654.17489.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Jun 2007 14:52:53.0593 (UTC) FILETIME=[308B4C90:01C7AC38] X-Archives-Salt: adb97b0b-011f-4757-8e97-bf497a47cb36 X-Archives-Hash: 0325f2d9d6826cd71de917584b0fefd9 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 -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list