Online resizing of ext3 filesystems {shrink}

[Justin Conover]

On 1/9/06, goemon at anime.net <goemon at anime.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Andy Burns wrote:
> > I don't know many real world servers where users end up using *less*
> space,
> > it's always *more* space, so growing is always more important than
> shrinking
>
> kernel developers shouldn't let lack of imagination dictate what users
> can't do. just because it's not useful to you doesn't mean it's not
> important to someone else.
>
> things you learn from supporting larg customer bases. don't try to second
> guess and dictate what your customers need. give them flexibility to do
> what they need.


Yes, the reason this was all brought  up was because a friend of mine has a
hosting provider and  for whatever reason they were thinking created a 120GB
/  on lvm, no SWAP no nothing left, so I think he is going to walk them
through booting knoppix and using parted or some other tool to shrink it.
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