Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2407 mails)

[grimmer@xxxxxxx (Lenz Grimmer)]

Hi,

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Timothy R. Butler wrote:

> Is there any easy way to resize a ReiserFS partition without
> reformatting? I'm trying to get Win4Lin running, and since it needs
> ext2 fs for it's data, I need to shrink my Reiser partition. Any
> ideas?

Yes, ReiserFS can be shrinked offline (unmounted). See the documentation
here:

        http://devlinux.com/projects/reiserfs/rsz.html

BTW: Growing a ReiserFS file system is supposed to work in online mode,
too!

> Also, isn't there a way to create a filesystem inside a normal file?

Yes, via the loopback device:

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Loopback-Root-FS.html

> Could I perhaps do this instead (on top of my Reiser partition)?

Should be possible, check the above HOWTO for more info.

Bye,
        LenZ

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