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Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

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On Wednesday 17 August 2016 09:59:56 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:55:12AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 09:16:01 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > >  - Shrinking:
>
> [...]
>
> > >  - Growing
>
> [...]
>
> > And I sit here with egg on my face. :(
>
> Not necessarily. Perhaps gparted knows how to do the dump/restore
> thing, given enough spare disk space. That would be definitely
> a (slow, but feasible) solution!
>
> I was just recommending to look closely before putting one's
> work and sweat at risk :-)
>
> regards
> -- t

Even so, Tomas, I think I would try it on a throwaway filesystem first. 
And absolutely not on a live system. But the OP was talking in terms of 
terabytes, which can be a whole new game.  Thats dirt few if any have 
walked on.  I sure have not.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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Decrease/increase XFS partitions ML mail <mlnospam@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-17 09:50 +0200
  Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Igor Cicimov <icicimov@gmail.com> - 2016-08-17 10:00 +0200
    Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-08-17 10:10 +0200
      Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-17 15:40 +0200
        Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-08-17 21:10 +0200
    Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-17 15:00 +0200
  Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-17 15:00 +0200
    Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-08-17 15:20 +0200
      Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-08-17 15:30 +0200
        Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-08-17 15:40 +0200
          Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-08-17 16:20 +0200
      Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-17 16:00 +0200
        Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-08-17 16:10 +0200
          Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-17 16:30 +0200
          Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-08-17 21:20 +0200
    Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-08-17 15:40 +0200
      Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-17 16:00 +0200
        Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-08-17 16:10 +0200
          Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-17 16:30 +0200
            Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-08-17 17:00 +0200
          Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-08-17 17:00 +0200
        Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-08-17 16:30 +0200
      Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-08-17 21:10 +0200

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