On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 04:39:45PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > I run JFS on everything. Even my 486 with ancient hardware, JFS has > been the most forgiving. I could never see a need to shrink a > partition. For my new box I've gone with LVM with JFS on top. Under > the LVM I have raid1 for the system stuff, pure LVM for user stuff. > I tend to use LVM over RAID1 whenever possible. If *really* need to maximize space, I'll occasionally go with a 4 or 8 drive RAID5.
> I had a WD Cavier that died. I think the bearing overheated and the > speed wasn't constant as it squeeled. After I powered-off and it > cooled, the JFS was able to sort itself out and I saved the data. > Good to know. Of course, there is always the freezer trick, and the oven trick. > If you really need to shrink an LV, just make the new smaller LV and > put the filesystem on it, copy the data over, then remove the old LV. > Similar to moving stuff from one drive to another before LVM came along. > Good point. I'd not thought about that as a possible way to "shrink" a JFS or XFS partition. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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