On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:46:57 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > If partition A > > runs out of space while partition B has plenty, > > Then you made B too large, which is the main cause of the problem.
Of course, but if your needs change, that's the situation you find yourself in, as I did recently. > > > you have to shrink B's > > filesystem before you can add space to A. That's time consuming, > > especially if B uses XFS. > > What's so special about XFS? The fact that there's no shrinker? Yes, so a matter of seconds turns into the time it takes to backup, repartition and restore, which can take a while if the partition is tens of GB and you have no space elsewhere for the backup. I've used complex partition layouts in the past and have found that, as with most things, KISS is the best approach. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 10: Computer security
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