On Friday 01 December 2006 7:19 am, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
The only problem I have with reiserfs is that suse's partition manager doesn't seem to be able to resize a reiserfs partition, which is why I installed with ext3 when I added Suse 10.1
Reiserfs can be resized without even unmounting. If you want to grow a Reiserfs filesystem, you simply increase the size of the underlying volume/partition/whatever, then run resize_reiserfs <device>.
Most filesystems, including Ext3, have to be unmounted before resizing.
"Most" huh? resize2fs's manual page says it can do it online too, and xfs can _only_ do it online. I am sure jfs also has some way, so "most" ist mostly inaccurate ;-)
Ah, I stand corrected. Reiserfs *used* to be the only Linux fs capable of online resizing. ext3 got it in 2.6.10. Apparently, this misconception is popular. I remember reading it recently. -- James Oakley jfunk@funktronics.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org