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I wonder if Linux can mimic the technique Microsoft uses to grow volumes and filesystems on the fly. It's something I've missed on the occasion. It's pretty sli
by brazzledazzle 10y ago
I wonder if Linux can mimic the technique Microsoft uses to grow volumes and filesystems on the fly. It's something I've missed on the occasion. It's pretty slick.
- Nux 10y agoAll my VMs have a separate /boot and ext4 as / (xfs would work, too). With this setup - using KVM, mind you - I can change the disk size of the VM and resize the / filesystem inside by just using resize2fs, no need to reboot, umount or anything else.
- brazzledazzle 10y agoThe impression I got a long time ago was that it's potentially unsafe. Is that old information?
- Nux 10y agoI have not read that anywhere, I did it many times without data loss or other issues. You just need to use a relatively recent distro (Centos 6 +). If you use xfs, watch out, you can grow a fs, but not shrink it - which is why I use ext4 when I want more flexibility.
- Rapzid 10y agoIt depends on the filesystem but yes, it can.
- Rapzid 10y agoIt depends on the filesystem but yes, it can.
- maccam94 10y agoA number of Linux filesystems support online resize. See this handy chart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Resize_capabilities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Res...