On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Drew wrote:
> > Online shrinking is more difficult to achieve than online growing, and
> > is much less frequently needed, it usually happens due to bad planning.
> > I know some filesystem on different oses (namely vxfs) and btrfs on linux
> > allow online shrinking, ext3/4 and xfs don't.
>
> Ext3 does support shrinking. I've been doing it as far back as 2005.
But not while mounted. (AFAIK)
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