Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > Lars Wirzenius, 2011-12-16 15:38+0100: > > resize2fs, at least, only supports online resizing to make the filesystem > > larger, not smaller. It's not particularly useful for, say, the root > > filesystem. > > This is also true of Ext* with resize2fs, and probably most file > systems. Online shrinking is a very rare feature.
Even when offline it is not univerial to have shrinking available. For example xfs does not provide a way to shrink a filesystem either online or offline. A sorely missed feature in an otherwise excellent filesystem. Bob
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