On Sun, 20 May 2018 15:03:37 +0200 Pascal Hambourg said: > Le 20/05/2018 à 14:33, songbird a écrit : >> >> in my last system i had many different partitions like that but >> with the new system i decided that was wasting too much space and > > Then LVM is your friend. You can create as many logical volumes as you > like with minimal sizes and easily extend them when needed. This way you > don't waste space in overprovisioning.
LVM greatly simplifies the partitioning part of the chore. But you still need to do the content management part[*] before shrinking / after enlarging an LV, don't you? [*] backup, umount/swapoff, resize2fs/mkswap, mount/swapon, (unlikely but possibly: restore) Regards -- Abdullah Ramazanoğlu
