On Fri, 17 May 2024 22:48:33 -0400 "Dale R. Worley" <wor...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> Unfortunately for (1) there seems to be no way to shrink an XFS > filesystem, so if you haven't accidentally got at least 1 MiB or so > free after the filesystem, there's little that you can do. See e.g. The tools on GNU Parted CD might be able to shrink an XFS filesystem but I don't know if it can be done if there is no partition table. I personally am wary of filesystem converters. I haven't had the best experiences with them. And block level surgery frightens me when there is no safety net. I think the best solution costs money: buy an identical drive and prep it to be one of a mirrored pair, copy the data to it, clean up the original drive, and make it the other mirror. I say "best" because it gets your storage partitioned properly and you have data redundancy. And no worries about throughput. A single USB 3.0 link (5 Gbit/s) can easily handle two rotating drives (typically well under 2 Gbit/s each). I run my home server backups and some auxiliary storage on ZFS mirrored pairs in a two-bay USB 3.0 dock. No problems with throughput. -- \m/ (--) \m/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@driftwood.blu.org https://driftwood.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
