Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2372 mails)

[Guy Van Sanden <sienix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes there is:

resize_reiserfs

growing can be done online, without unmounting (though unmounting is 
safer), shrinking offline.

Good luck!

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 07/01/2001, 04:00:27, Jerry Kreps <jerrykreps@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote 
regarding Re: [SLE] reiserfs:


> AFAIK, there is not.  When you change the partition sizes you
> have to reformat.
> JLK


> On Saturday 06 January 2001 19:29, Jerry VB wrote:
> > May I jump in here and ask a question about Reiser?
> >
> > Is there an easy way to resize/move reiser partitions, like
> > Partiton Magic does?
> >
> > Jerry Kreps wrote:
> > > What does the "notail" option do?
> > >
> > > On Saturday 06 January 2001 08:03, Nick Zentena wrote:
> > > > On January  6, 2001 08:48 am, Jerry Kreps wrote:
> > > > > I read somewhere that /boot shouldn't use ReiserFS.  Is this
> > > > > still true?
> > > >
> > > >       I don't have a true /boot. I just keep it under /. The
> > > > issues that I'm aware of are it needs to be big enough. Second
> > > > the way the kernel file was written could cause problems for
> > > > lilo. But if you use the notail options in /etc/fstab then lilo
> > > > isn't an issue. My understanding is that newer versions of lilo
> > > > and reiser don't even have that limitation.
> > > >
> > > > My /etc/fstab looks like:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > /dev/hda4       swap                      swap
> > > > defaults 0   0 /dev/hda2       /
> > > > reiserfs defaults,notail   1 1
> > > > /dev/hda6       /var                      reiserfs
> > > > defaults 1   2 /dev/hda8       /opt
> > > > reiserfs defaults   1   2 /dev/hda10      /usr
> > > >     reiserfs defaults   1   2 /dev/hda12      /tmp
> > > > reiserfs        defaults   1   2 /dev/hda9       /home
> > > >        reiserfs        defaults   1   2 /dev/hda11
> > > > /usr/local reiserfs        defaults   1   2 /dev/hda7
> > > > /var/spool                reiserfs        defaults   1   2
> > > > /dev/hda1       /dos                      vfat
> > > > defaults 1   2 /dev/hda5       /dosd                     vfat
> > > > defaults   1   2
> > > >
> > > > /dev/hdb        /cdrom                    auto
> > > > ro,noauto,user,exec 0   0
> > > >
> > > > /dev/fd0        /floppy                   auto
> > > > noauto,user 0   0
> > > >
> > > > none            /proc                     proc
> > > > defaults 0   0 # End of YaST-generated fstab lines
> > > >
> > > >       So I'm pure reiser.
> > > >
> > > > Nick
> > >
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> > > were Popper's favorites- are formed in such a way that they
> > > cannot be falsified by data.
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> Scientific theories, according to Sir Karl Popper, can be "falsified," 
or proven wrong, by experiment.
> Unscientific theories -Marxist dialectical history and Freudian 
psychology were Popper's favorites-
> are formed in such a way that they cannot be falsified by data.



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