On 03/01/2014 02:18 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Mar 1, 2014, at 1:19 PM, Jon <jdisnard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The inability to shrink or reduce XFS is rather disappointing. I've
seen a few sarcastic remarks along the lines of (paraphrased): why
would anyone ever want to shrink a volume?
In the context of server, and default installs, why is a valid question.
People do shrink volumes, and this lack of flexibility is an important
consideration I feel was ignored in the Server WG decision.
What is the use case for volume shrinking in a server context? Dual boot is a total edge case for servers.
Recently I had a client who required that some data be on an encrypted
partition. The servers were rented from a datacenter instead of being
cloud based etc. As such you don't have access to the kickstart used to
initialize and install the OS. So we had to shrink the rootfs to make
room for a new lvm partition for the data. I've had to do that a handful
of times for various reasons but the above is the most recent.
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Nathanael
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