[mythtv-users] Change filesystem format in place?

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Richard,

Sunday, July 12, 2015, 2:50:51 PM, you wrote:

> 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

You can try with gparted, but I have never tried. But it stays risky
and a disk is not so expensive and always useful!

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