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Resizing and defragmenting Linux filesystems (NewsForge)

Resizing and defragmenting Linux filesystems (NewsForge)

Posted Oct 13, 2003 21:57 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Resizing and defragmenting Linux filesystems (NewsForge) by hisdad
Parent article: Resizing and defragmenting Linux filesystems (NewsForge)

Of course, you still have to resize the filesystem, even with LVM and its ilk...


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Resizing and defragmenting Linux filesystems (NewsForge)

Posted Oct 14, 2003 3:58 UTC (Tue) by hisdad (subscriber, #5375) [Link]

with evms, its all in the toolset. It resizes partitions and the filesystems
transparently.

Some limitations apply. Mounted filesystems cannot be shrunk..

--dad

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