[wellylug] laptop advice sought

[Donald Gordon]

On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 10:44:52 +1200 (NZST)
David Antliff <dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Mark Foster wrote:
> > I've never edited a live partition, and don't see myself trying it anytime 
> > soon.  Funny i've never lost a partition either =)
> 
> That is one disconcerting 'feature' of the XFS file system - one typically 
> performs resize operations on a live, mounted filesystem.

At least then there's a greater chance that the XFS resize code is a
similar version to the XFS filesystem access code you're using.  And
with LVM, resizing filesystems on the fly is both easy and achievable --
I've done it several times with no ill effects.

donald