partitioning new installation

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 06:06:59AM -0500, James Knott wrote:
>> One thing I've noticed, is that it's easy to increase a partition size,
>> but not decrease.  When I try to decrease a partition size, using Yast
>> LVM in SUSE 10, it complains about editing a mounted drive.  No such
>> complaints about increasing the size of the same partition.
> 
> Many filesystems support on the fly expanding.  Shrinking is a much much
> harder job, and hence not implemented for most filesystems.  Of course
> since most people run out of space and not the other way around, working
> on online shrinking is not a high priority for most people especially
> since it is much harder to implement.  After all you have to move data
> out of the end of the device before you can shrink it.  Adding just
> means add more blocks and increase the free inode table size.

Yes, that's what I suspected was the case.  However, the point of the
experiment was to verify that only /boot couldn't be on LVM.  On my
system, I could have fitted it into one cylinder, but I thought I'd be
generous and give it two.  ;-)
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