partitioning new installation

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:49:46AM -0500, wattst-dxuVLtCph9gsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org wrote:
>> Although I agree that growing is probably by far a more common operation, I
>> think I need shrinking just as much since when I run out of space, I usually
>> shrink another partition to grow the other one.  I don't like the idea of
>> leaving disk space alone, unformatted so I guess at install and change it
>> later.
>>
>> I'm one who would love to see shrinking support added.
> 
> I think you will just have to put up with having to unmount the
> filesystem first.  Or learn to have less partitions so you won't ever
> have the problem in the first place (I use that method).

I suppose with LVM, a "partition" could be scattered all over the disk.
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