On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 15:13 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > ext3 doesn't support online shrinking and I don't think that fixing that > is on the ext4 todo. So no matter how easy you make it, it's still not > really going to be easy enough as a reboot into some other environment > will be needed :-/ Couldn't we pull a trick the LiveCDs do, but the source is the existing partition? Create a "Maintenance Mode" GRUB menu entry, booting it no that would copy the some pre-selected (we would have to choose the "reasonable defaults" here) programs into tmpfs, umount / and away you go. IMHO this is very important, a separate /home has saved me on several occasions. Not to mention it makes upgrading or sharing a common home between various distros a breeze. Stewart -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
