[mythtv-users] Change filesystem format in place?

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 12 12:50:51 UTC 2015


On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk>
wrote:

>
> There is a slight problem ...
> 1 is OK, 2 is OK, 3 is OK, as is 4
> But, after these 4 steps you are left with your EXT4 partition at the
> beginning of the disk, with the XFS partition following it. When you shrink
> the EXT4 partition the second time, you have a gap which is *before* the
> XFS partition - and to extend it, (AFAIK) you'll need the space after it.
> That means you have to physically move the XFS partition each time - and
> that's a critical operation which could easily lose your data if it gets
> interrupted.


I wonder if I can shrink the front of the ext4 partition then?

Thanks,
Richard
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