In a side note, there have been *some* attempts at adding shrink compatability to xfs, but none of them seem to developed or even complete.
Shrinking in my experience is extremely important. Having unexpected growth in the / partition with no ability to make room for it can be a major issue as this has happened to one of my servers and it was not a pretty situation. On Mar 1, 2014 4:43 PM, "Jacob Yundt" <jyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> People do shrink volumes, and this lack of flexibility is an important > >> consideration I feel was ignored in the Server WG decision. > > > > What is the use case for volume shrinking in a server context? Dual boot > is a total edge case for servers. > > I shrink ext4 filesystems on servers pretty frequently. Most recently > because: > > *) Received bad information from an end user which required changing > several LVs/FSs. > *) An "oops" situation where a filesystem was incorrectly increased by > an extra order of magnitude > *) Unexpected (e.g. emergency) growth of an application which required > increasing a filesystem and shrinking another (lesser) used > filesystem. > > Yes in all three aforementioned cases we had to unmount the ext4 > filesystem in order to shrink it, however, we would _not_ have been > able to do this with xfs. > > On a semi related note: I grow/shrink JFS2 filesystems (on AIX) all > the time. It would be great if ext4 had online shrink. > > -Jacob > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
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