On 9/1/2010 10:46 AM, Yaron wrote: > On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, Josh Paetzel wrote: > >> Ironically, resizing is way safer while it's mounted. I'm not sure about >> reiser, but on a lot of filesystems resizing isn't even possible unless it's >> mounted. (XFS being one popular example on linux) > > That's super-weird. > > Also this is ext4. > > > -Yaron Yaron, we often do "Online Resizing" to grow our LVs live and in production, which are ext3fs. I believe the Linux kernel was patched to allow online resizing, when and where I am unsure, but it is perfectly safe on recent distros. At least version >= Ubuntu 8.04 works well. ~Mr. M Not so sure about shrinking though...might have to break out a VM.