Bjørn Mork <[email protected]> writes:
> Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> [Bjørn Mork]
>>> I'd like to add another one:
>>>
>>> - a tmpfs is always easy to grow without requiring any special
>>> preparations. Just add more swap. The swap could be on different
>>> disks, and could even be files hosted on other file systems.
>>
>> This sound very similar to what I am doing already with LVM and online
>> file system growing. A simple 'lvresize' and 'ext2resize' (or just
>> debian-edu-fsautoresize for those of us with that tool available)
>> later the full file systems have more free space again. :)
>>
>> Did I misunderstand you?
>
> No, but those require LVM and available raw disk space. Swap can always
> be added without any such preparation.
>
>
> Bjørn
And tmpfs is the only filesystem you can also shrink again.
MfG
Goswin
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