On Sat, 2019-04-13 at 08:18 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 12/04/2019 à 22:46, Thomas D Dial a écrit : > > In terms of management, it is a major advance over physical > > partitioning > > for the file systems and, depending on particular file system > > characteristics, allows you to get out of space problems without > > down > > time in many cases (online resizing is available for jfs, xfs, I > > think > > for ext2/3/4, and possibly others). > > XFS and ext* can be grown online. Ext* can be reduced offline only. > XFS > cannot be reduced. Btrfs can be grown and reduced online. I don't t > know > about JFS.
I ought to have specified "increase" or "growth" rather than "resizing," never having had occasion to reduce a volume. I also was unaware of the situation with Btrfs. JFS can be grown while mounted and in use, but as far as I know cannot be reduced in size except offline. Regards, Tom Dial
