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Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

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On Wednesday 17 August 2016 10:00:50 Greg Wooledge wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:53:36AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Wednesday 17 August 2016 09:12:40 Brian wrote:
> > > You would advise using gparted to shrink an XFS partition in spite
> > > of
> > >
> > > http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_Is_there_a_way_to_make_a_XFS_f
> > >iles ystem_larger_or_smaller.3F
> > >
> > > saying it is not possible?
> >
> > No, I just assumed, incorrectly it seems, that zfs had a command
> > structure similar to ext2-3-4.
>
> XFS and ZFS are completely different things.

We have too many filesystem with similar names, can I plead that was a 
typu?
>
> XFS is a file system originating with SGI in 1993.  It's been in use
> on Linux for years.  Largely considered stable.
>
> ZFS is a file system originating with Sun in 2005.  I don't know
> anyone who uses it.  Largely considered experimental/unfinished
> outside of Solaris.


ISTR its (ZFS) a compressed filesytem?  Scary.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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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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