Dave Howorth said the following on 12/07/2010 05:27 AM:
Anton Aylward wrote:
All my filesystems except root are resiser so they can easily be shrunk or grown on the LVM substrate. Over the past few years I've gown or split-and-shrunk what's under /home/anton quite a number of times. No big deal.
But its no big deal because I decided to use LVM and reiser. If you didn't do that then you may have a lot of work ahead of you to do what takes me just a few minutes and is low risk.
+1
I do this. Some of the subdirectories are NFS-mounted as well so I see the same things wherever I log in.
Oh, right, I forgot to mention that. Having an old "Salvation Army Special" whose only job is to act as a file server for my workstation is a joy. It is also one way to free up space; in fact its one way to free up partitions so you can build LVM. No! Wait! Its one way you can build a diskless workstation! A bit of help from DNS, DHCP and PXE ... voilà. See google for details :-) (And yes I've tried it.) -- The two pillars of `political correctness' are, a) wilful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth -- George MacDonald Fraser -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org